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, the Empress, 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 science-fiction novel known 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.
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ISBN
9781460405901
Publisert
2017
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Broadview Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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