The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World

By:

Margaret Cavendish

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Broadview Editions

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First published in 1666›››, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. In Blazing World, Cavendish depicts her heroine, theEmpress, in multiple roles. The Empress is leader of a dreamlike utopian world reachable through the North Pole, filled with talking animals and intelligent hybrid creatures. She establishes a royal society of scientists, initiates learned conferences, interrogates existing knowledge, and spends her days speculating on natural philosophy. She also forms a lively intellectual collaboration with the “Duchess of Newcastle,” a female character summoned from Earth. A companion volume to Cavendish’s important Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Blazing World is the first known science fiction novel to have been written and published by a woman, and represents a pioneering female scientific utopia. This Broadview Edition includes related historical materials on the new science and Cavendish’s role in the intellectual world of her time.

Author Biography:

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c. 1573 - 1676›•›) was a British prose writer, poet, playwright, and philosopher.. Sara H. Mendelson teaches in the Arts and Science program at McMaster University. She is the co-editor, with the late Sylvia Bowerbank, of Broadview’s Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader.

Release date Australia

March 30th, 2016

Author

Margaret Cavendish

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Sara Mendelson

Illustrations

5 illustrations

Pages

240

Series

Broadview Editions

Dimensions

140x216x12

ISBN-13

9781554812424

Product ID

24564468

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