The Blazing World and Other Writings
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1994
Summary
In her introduction, Kate Lilley places these writings in the context of Margaret Cavendish’s extraordinary life and discusses the roles of women in these texts.
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 shi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433722 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433724 |
| Author: | Margaret Cavendish, Kate Lilley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1994 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673). A Royalist during English Civil War, Margaret Lucas was Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta Maria from 1643 to 1645. She wrote a total of fourteen works on a broad selection of topics- scientific and philosophical treatises, science fiction, a biography, an autobiography, essays, letters, poetry, “orations”, and several plays.
Kate Lilley was born in Perth. She completed her doctorate on Masculine Elegy at the University of London and went on to postdoctoral research at St Hilda’s College, Oxford as the Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow. She now teaches Literary History and Critical Theory at the University of Sydney. She has published many essays on contemporary Australian and American poetry, especially the work of John Tranter, and on 17th century women’s writing.
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