The Blazing World and Other Writings

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Beschreibung

One of the most diverse and maverick intellectuals of the early modern period, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and philosophical beliefs. In this edition Lisa Walters brings together popular works such as The Blazing World, alongside lesser-known poems and prose pieces, like The Ambitious Traitor.

Über den Autor

Lisa Walters is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics (2014) and co-editor of Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2022). Dr Walters is also one of the joint editors of the Restoration section of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of Margaret Cavendish

POETRY FROM POEMS AND FANCIES

Of Many Worlds in this World

The Soul's Garment

Of Stars

Motion Directs, While Atoms Dance

Motion Makes Atoms a Bawd for Figure

Nature Calls a Council, Which is Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life To Advise About Making the World

A Dialogue Betwixt Riches and Poverty

Of the Ant

Of the Knowledge of Beasts

Of Fish

Earth's Complaint

The Clasp

The Hunting of the Hare

Nature's Oven

Nature's [Wine] Cellar

A Dialogue Between an Oak, and a Man Cutting it Down

from 'A Dialogue betwixt Birds'

STORIES

The Blazing World

The Travelling Spirits

The Ambitious Traitor

Assaulted and Pursued Chastity

PROSE

from Orations of Diverse Sorts

from Sociable Letters

from 'A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life'

PLAYS

The Unnatural Tragedy

The Convent of Pleasure

Explanatory Notes

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Oxford World's Classics
ISBN-13:	9780192862907
ISBN-10:	0192862901
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cavendish, Margaret
Redaktion:	Walters, Lisa
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	194 x 128 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Margaret Cavendish
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.08.2025
Gewicht:	0,34 kg