The blazing world, and other writings

The blazing world, and other writings

Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, 1624?-1674

Book - 2004

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. --

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Subjects
Utopias > Early works to 1800.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century > Sources.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Utopian fiction.
Genres
Utopian fiction
Published
London ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books 2004.
Language
English
Main Author
Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, 1624?-1674 (author)
Item Description
Reprint. Previously published: 1994, with a new chronology and further reading.
Physical Description
xliii, 230 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxix-xliii).
ISBN
9780140433722
  • Introduction
  • Notes on this edition
  • Chronology
  • Works by Margaret Cavendish
  • Further reading
  • From Nature's pictures (1656). The contract ; Assaulted and pursued chastity ; The description of a new world, called The blazing world (1666)
  • Notes.

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