Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

By:

Margaret Cavendish

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

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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.

Author Biography:

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was the first Englishwoman to publish a large body of literary and philosophical work in her own lifetime. Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. Her publications include Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford, 1997) and numerous articles.

Release date Australia

August 28th, 2003

Author

Margaret Cavendish

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Susan James

Pages

344

Series

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

Dimensions

139x217x23

ISBN-13

9780521633505

Product ID

2398154

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