Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish

Political Writings
Herausgeber: James, Susan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
The political writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

Main description
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.

Table of contents:
Preface; Introduction; Chronology of Margaret Cavendish; Further Reading; The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World; Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places; Index.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9780521633499
• ISBN-10: 0521633494
• Artikelnr.: 21064667

Autorenporträt

Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright during the 17th century. She is praised for writing under her own name at a time when most women writers published anonymously. Her writing addressed a number of topics, including gender, power, manners, scientific method, and philosophy. She was the first woman to attend a meeting at the Royal Society of London in 1667, and she criticized and engaged with members and philosophers Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, and Robert Boyle. She has been claimed as an advocate for animals and as an early opponent of animal testing.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chronology of Margaret Cavendish
Further Reading
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places
Index.