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The description of a new world, called the blazing world / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle ; edited by Sara H. Mendelson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3605.N2 D47 2016
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LIBRA PR3605.N2 D47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674, author.
- Series:
- Broadview editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias--Fiction.
- Utopias.
- Women and literature.
- History.
- England.
- Utopias--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages, Imaginary--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Women and literature--England--History--17th century--Sources.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Early works.
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "First published in 1666, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's Description of a New 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 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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781554812424
- 1554812429
- OCLC:
- 936220766
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