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245 14 a| The blazing world and other writings /c| Margaret Cavendish ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lisa Walters.;

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505 0 a| 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 -- Prose Fiction Stories. The Blazing World -- Stories from Natures Pictures -- The Travelling Spirits -- The Ambitious Traitor -- Assaulted and Pursued Chastity -- Other Prose Works : Orations, Fictional Letters, and Autobiography. From Orations of Diverse Sorts -- A Common Soldier's Oration to Take the City by Force -- A Mutinous Oration to Common Soldiers by a Common Soldier -- A Cause Pleaded at the Bar before Judges, Concerning Theft -- Complaints of the Subjects to their Sovereign -- The Subjects Complaint to their Sovereign of the Abuses of their Magistrates -- A Speech of a King to a Rebellious Rout -- The Speech of a King to his Rebellious Subjects -- Female Orations -- From Sociable Letters -- Letter 16 -- Letter 159 -- From Natures Pictures -- From 'A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life' -- Plays. The Unnatural Tragedy -- The Covenant of Pleasure : a comedy -- Appendix A : Excerpts from Cavendish's Philosophical Treatises -- Appendix B : Excerpts from Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy.;

520 a| "'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.' One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and philosophical beliefs. While she was the first British woman to publish several philosophical treatises, she was also profoundly interested in literature and writing in nearly every available genre; indeed, with her wide-ranging, complex, and often unorthodox ideas, she was a pioneer of what today would be referred to as science fiction. In this edition Lisa Walters brings together well-known and popular works such as The Blazing World, alongside lesser-known poems and prose pieces, like The Ambitious Traitor and The Unnatural Tragedy. The introduction discusses the wide-ranging concepts that appear in the writings, from gender and cross-dressing, to science and the nature of the universe, and provides a fresh insight on Cavendish's proclivity for literary experimentation and innovation."--Provided by publisher.;

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The blazing world and other writings / Margaret Cavendish ; edited with an introduction and notes by Lisa Walters.

Author/creator	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish author.
Other author	Walters, Lisa, 1975- editor.
Format	Book
Publication	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025.
Description	lv, 397 pages ; 20 cm.

Uniform title	Works. Selections
Series	Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) ^A400278
Contents	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 -- Prose Fiction Stories. The Blazing World -- Stories from Natures Pictures -- The Travelling Spirits -- The Ambitious Traitor -- Assaulted and Pursued Chastity -- Other Prose Works : Orations, Fictional Letters, and Autobiography. From Orations of Diverse Sorts -- A Common Soldier's Oration to Take the City by Force -- A Mutinous Oration to Common Soldiers by a Common Soldier -- A Cause Pleaded at the Bar before Judges, Concerning Theft -- Complaints of the Subjects to their Sovereign -- The Subjects Complaint to their Sovereign of the Abuses of their Magistrates -- A Speech of a King to a Rebellious Rout -- The Speech of a King to his Rebellious Subjects -- Female Orations -- From Sociable Letters -- Letter 16 -- Letter 159 -- From Natures Pictures -- From 'A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life' -- Plays. The Unnatural Tragedy -- The Covenant of Pleasure : a comedy -- Appendix A : Excerpts from Cavendish's Philosophical Treatises -- Appendix B : Excerpts from Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy.
Abstract	"'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.' One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wide range of early modern cultural and philosophical beliefs. While she was the first British woman to publish several philosophical treatises, she was also profoundly interested in literature and writing in nearly every available genre; indeed, with her wide-ranging, complex, and often unorthodox ideas, she was a pioneer of what today would be referred to as science fiction. In this edition Lisa Walters brings together well-known and popular works such as The Blazing World, alongside lesser-known poems and prose pieces, like The Ambitious Traitor and The Unnatural Tragedy. The introduction discusses the wide-ranging concepts that appear in the writings, from gender and cross-dressing, to science and the nature of the universe, and provides a fresh insight on Cavendish's proclivity for literary experimentation and innovation."--Provided by publisher.
Issued in other form	Online version: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. Blazing world and other writings. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780192677433
Genre/form	Novels
Genre/form	Science fiction
Genre/form	Novels.
Genre/form	Science fiction.
Genre/form	Romans.
ISBN	9780192862907
ISBN	0192862901 paperback
ISBN	e-book
ISBN	e-book

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