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Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521633508

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Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle Pdf

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first ever modern edition of her Divers Orations on English social and political life, together with a new student-friendly rendition of her imaginary voyage, A New World called the Blazing World. Susan James explains the allusions made in this classic text, and directs readers to the many intellectual debates with which Cavendish engages. Together these two works reveal the character and scope of Margaret Cavendish's political thought. She emerges as a singular and probing writer, who simultaneously upholds a conservative social and political order and destabilises it through her critical and unresolved observations about natural philosophy, scientific institutions, religion, and the relations between men and women.

Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521633494

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Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and Susan James includes two major texts, the Orations and The Blazing World, accompanied by the standard series features that enables students to gain a better understanding of one of the truly distinctive political voices of the early modern period.

Margaret Cavendish

Author : Lisa Walters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107066434

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Margaret Cavendish by Lisa Walters Pdf

Exploring connections between Cavendish's science, literature, and politics, Walters challenges the view that Cavendish's thought was characterised by conservative royalism.

Margaret Cavendish

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190664053

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Margaret Cavendish by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle Pdf

Introduction -- Worlds Olio -- Philosophical and physical opinion -- Philosophical letters -- Observations upon experimental philosophy -- Grounds of natural philosophy -- Poems and fancies -- Fiction -- List of suggested secondary readings.

The Blazing World and Other Writings

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141904825

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The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.

The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish

Author : Lisa T. Sarasohn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801894435

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The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish by Lisa T. Sarasohn Pdf

It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution.

Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind

Author : Anna Battigelli
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183855

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Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind by Anna Battigelli Pdf

Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and philosophical ideas of her day. While previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli is the first to explore in depth her intellectual life. She dismisses the myth of Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker, arguing that the role of exile was a rhetorical stance, one that allowed Cavendish to address and even criticize her world. She, like others writing during the period after the English civil wars, focused squarely on the problem of finding the proper relationship between mind and world. This volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she treasured above all others.

Margaret Cavendish: Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521776759

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Margaret Cavendish: Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle Pdf

A 2001 edition of Margaret Cavendish's treatise on the philosophy of nature.

Margaret Cavendish

Author : Lisa Walters,Brandie R. Siegfried
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108490368

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Margaret Cavendish by Lisa Walters,Brandie R. Siegfried Pdf

This collection provides the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of the works of Margaret Cavendish currently available.

Paper Bodies

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155111173X

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Paper Bodies by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. “Paper Bodies” was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make “a great Blazing Light” after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish’s most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish’s brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.

Margaret Cavendish

Author : Emma L. E. Rees
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719060729

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Margaret Cavendish by Emma L. E. Rees Pdf

Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.

Grounds of Natural Philosophy

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460406878

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Grounds of Natural Philosophy by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

This edition aims to make Margaret Cavendish’s most mature philosophical work more accessible to students and scholars of the period. Grounds of Natural Philosophy is important not only because it is Cavendish’s final articulation of her metaphysics but also because it succinctly outlines her fundamental views on “the nature of nature”—or the base substance and mechanics of all natural matter—and vividly demonstrates her probabilistic approach to philosophical enquiry. Moreover, Grounds spends considerable time discussing the human body, including the functions of the mind, a topic of growing interest to both historians of philosophy and literary scholars. This Broadview Edition opens to modern readers a vibrant, unique, and provocative voice of the past that challenges our standard view of seventeenth-century English philosophy.

Authorial Conquests

Author : Line Cottegnies,Nancy Weitz
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838639836

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Authorial Conquests by Line Cottegnies,Nancy Weitz Pdf

Cottegnies (English literature, University of Paris 8-Saint Denis) and Weitz (University of Oxford) offer a collection of essays on Margaret Cavendish's innovative use of genre. These interdisciplinary and multinational contributions present a variety of critical approaches to the problem of placing Cavendish's writing in the context of contemporary literary and philosophical history. The book is distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Well-ordered Universe

Author : Deborah A. Boyle,Deborah Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190234805

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The Well-ordered Universe by Deborah A. Boyle,Deborah Boyle Pdf

Order and regularities -- Cavendish's atomism -- Vitalist materialism and infinite nature -- Creatures -- Human nature and the desire for fame -- Peace and order in human societies -- Gender roles and the role of nature -- Humans and the natural world -- Health and order in the human body

The Blazing World Illustrated

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798552099122

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The Blazing World Illustrated by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It can also be read as a utopian work