The blazing world, and other writings
Book - 2004
The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man. --
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Utopian fiction
- Published
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London ; New York, N.Y. :
Penguin Books
2004.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Reprint. Previously published: 1994, with a new chronology and further reading.
- Physical Description
- xliii, 230 pages ; 20 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxix-xliii).
- ISBN
- 9780140433722
- Introduction
- Notes on this edition
- Chronology
- Works by Margaret Cavendish
- Further reading
- From Nature's pictures (1656). The contract ; Assaulted and pursued chastity ; The description of a new world, called The blazing world (1666)
- Notes.