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The Blazing World and Other Writings.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavendish, Margaret
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Walters, Lisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc., 2025.
Series:Oxford world's classics.
Subjects:
Voyages, Imaginary.
Utopias.
Voyages imaginaires.
Utopies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • MARGARET CAVENDISH: The Blazing World and Other Writings
  • Copyright
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Women, Power, and Empire
  • Politics
  • Hybridity and Genre in The Blazing World
  • Genre, Nature, and the Natural/Unnatural in Cavendish's Plays
  • Animals and Nature: The Blazing World and Cavendish's Poetry
  • Cavendish's Philosophy
  • Reception
  • NOTE ON THE TEXT
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • General Overviews
  • Animals and NonHumans
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Race and Empire
  • Politics
  • Genre and the Literary Tradition
  • Religion and Spirits
  • Science and Philosophy
  • Further Reading in Oxford World's Classics
  • A CHRONOLOGY OF MARGARET CAVENDISH
  • POETRY FROM POEMS AND FANCIES
  • Of Many Worlds in this World
  • The Soul's Garment
  • Of Stars
  • Motion Directs, while Atoms Dance
  • Motion Makes Atoms a Bawd* for Figure
  • Nature Calls a Council, which Is Motion, Figure, Matter,* and Life to Advise about Making the World
  • A Dialogue betwixt* Riches and Poverty
  • Of the Ant*
  • Of the Knowledge of Beasts*
  • Of Fish*
  • Earth's Complaint
  • The Clasp*
  • The Hunting* of the Hare
  • Nature's Oven
  • Nature's [Wine] Cellar*
  • A Dialogue between an Oak,* and a Man Cutting It Down
  • from A Dialogue betwixt Birds
  • PROSE FICTION STORIES
  • THE BLAZING WORLD
  • The [First Part of the] Description of a New World,Called the Blazing World.
  • The Second Part of the Description of the New Blazing World.
  • The Epilogue to the Reader
  • STORIES FROM NATURES PICTURES
  • The Travelling Spirits*
  • The Ambitious Traitor
  • Assaulted and Pursued Chastity
  • OTHER PROSE WORKS: ORATIONS, FICTIONAL LETTERS, ANDAUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • FROM ORATIONS OF DIVERSE SORTS
  • FROM SOCIABLE LETTERS
  • FROM NATURES PICTURES
  • PLAYS
  • THE UNNATURAL TRAGEDY
  • THE CONVENT OF PLEASURE: A COMEDY
  • APPENDIX A: EXCERPTS FROM CAVENDISH'S PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISES
  • APPENDIX B: EXCERPTS FROM ANCIENT AND EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
  • EXPLANATORY NOTES
  • EndAdds