Margaret Cavendish Political Writings

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633505
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633499
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and Susan James includes two major texts, the Orations and The Blazing World, accompanied by the standard series features that enables students to gain a better understanding of one of the truly distinctive political voices of the early modern period.

Author : Anna Battigelli
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183855
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind written by Anna Battigelli and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and philosophical ideas of her day. While previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli is the first to explore in depth her intellectual life. She dismisses the myth of Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker, arguing that the role of exile was a rhetorical stance, one that allowed Cavendish to address and even criticize her world. She, like others writing during the period after the English civil wars, focused squarely on the problem of finding the proper relationship between mind and world. This volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she treasured above all others.

Author : Lisa Walters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107066433
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish written by Lisa Walters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring connections between Cavendish's science, literature, and politics, Walters challenges the view that Cavendish's thought was characterised by conservative royalism.

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190664053
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Worlds Olio -- Philosophical and physical opinion -- Philosophical letters -- Observations upon experimental philosophy -- Grounds of natural philosophy -- Poems and fancies -- Fiction -- List of suggested secondary readings.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141904828
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World and Other Writings written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. 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.

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521776752
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Cavendish: Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy written by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2001 edition of Margaret Cavendish's treatise on the philosophy of nature.

Author : Lisa T. Sarasohn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801894433
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish written by Lisa T. Sarasohn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 177048731X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounds of Natural Philosophy written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition aims to make Margaret Cavendish’s most mature philosophical work more accessible to students and scholars of the period. Grounds of Natural Philosophy is important not only because it is Cavendish’s final articulation of her metaphysics but also because it succinctly outlines her fundamental views on “the nature of nature”—or the base substance and mechanics of all natural matter—and vividly demonstrates her probabilistic approach to philosophical enquiry. Moreover, Grounds spends considerable time discussing the human body, including the functions of the mind, a topic of growing interest to both historians of philosophy and literary scholars. This Broadview Edition opens to modern readers a vibrant, unique, and provocative voice of the past that challenges our standard view of seventeenth-century English philosophy.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World Illustrated written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It can also be read as a utopian work