The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (Broadview Editions)
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1554812429 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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She also forms a lively intellectual collaboration with the “Duchess of Newcastle,” a female character summoned from Earth. The Empress is leader of a dreamlike utopian world reachable through the North Pole, filled with talking animals and intelligent hybrid creatures. This Broadview Edition includes related historical materials on the new science and Cavendish’s role in the intellectual world of her time.. She establishes a royal society of scientists, initiates learned conferences, interrogates existing knowledge, and spends her days speculating on natural philosophy. A companion volume to Cavendish’s important Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Blazing World is the first science-fiction novel known to have been written and published by a woman, and represents a pioneering female scientific utopia. First published in 1666, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s Description of a New World, Called
"The Blazing World" according to Steven Davis. The Blazing World is perhaps the earliest published work of science fiction by a woman. It's ironic that a book with its title should have been published in London the same year as the Great Fire of London, but only a coincidence.Margaret Cavendish was a member of the English court and a patroness of the sciences. She published under her own name a wide variety of works on philosophy, science, drama, poetry, and. A New World, Called the Blazing World (With Active Table of Contents) FY Emerson Written by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle in latter half of 17th century.Science bloomed while religion fought to maintain the tyranny it once held. England was in a new Renaissance promoted by the new king. Science and mathematics were explored. Tools of astronomy were created to view the stars. Newton was budding into a brilliant scientist. Men looked beyond their world, thinking there must be more t
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
She offers robust new explanations of Cavendish’s inventive work with genre, her extensive knowledge of natural sciences, philosophy, and religion, and the influence of exile, friends, and family on her writing. Mendelson clarifies how gender affected Cavendish’s natural philosophy and the structure of Blazing World. Cavendish’s utopian romance, which also functions as a critique of the new experimental science, is becoming one of the canonical texts of the Scientific Revolution. Mendelson’s fine introduction places this work within the context of the literary, h