Political writings / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of New Castle ; edited by Susan James.

Author
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description
xxxix, 298 pages ; 22 cm

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    Cambridge texts in the history of political thought [More in this series]
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    "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."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The description of a new world, called the blazing world
    • Orations of divers sorts, accommodated to divers places.
    ISBN
    • 0521633494
    • 9780521633499
    • 0521633508
    • 9780521633505
    Tech. report no.
    2002-41448
    LCCN
    2002041448
    OCLC
    51303957
    Other standard number
    • VJ735012
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