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The Blazing World and Other Writings

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by Margaret Cavendish
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Availability:In StockContributor:Margaret Cavendish, Kate Lilley (Editor), Kate Lilley (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:10/1/1994Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140433722ISBN-10:140433724UPC:9780140433722Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:7.71 x 5.03 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SC2W129HEW
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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140433722ISBN-10:140433724UPC:9780140433722Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:7.71 x 5.03 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SC2W129HEW
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673). A Royalist during English Civil War, Margaret Lucas was Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta Maria from 1643 to 1645. She wrote a total of fourteen works on a broad selection of topics: scientific and philosophical treatises, science fiction, a biography, an autobiography, essays, letters, poetry, "orations", and several plays. Kate Lilley was born in Perth. She completed her doctorate on Masculine Elegy at the University of London and went on to postdoctoral research at St Hilda's College, Oxford as the Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow. She now teaches Literary History and Critical Theory at the University of Sydney. She has published many essays on contemporary Australian and American poetry, especially the work of John Tranter, and on 17th century women's writing.
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Margaret Cavendish, Kate Lilley (Editor), Kate Lilley (Introduction by)

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Margaret Cavendish

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