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Political writings / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of New Castle ; edited by Susan James.
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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674
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Description of a new world, called the blazing world
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description
xxxix, 298 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR3605.N2 A6 2003
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Subject(s)
Utopias
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Early works to 1800
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Voyages, Imaginary
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Early works to 1800
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Political science
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Early works to 1800
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Great Britain
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Politics and government
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Early works to 1800
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Great Britain
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Social conditions
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Early works to 1800
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James, Susan, 1951-
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Series
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Orations of divers sorts, accommodated to divers places.
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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.
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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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