Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

by Margaret Cavendish, Susan James

Overview

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and Susan James includes two major texts, the Orations and The Blazing World, accompanied by the standard series features that enables students to gain a better understanding of one of the truly distinctive political voices of the early modern period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521633499
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/28/2003
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was the first Englishwoman to publish a large body of literary and philosophical work in her own lifetime.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Chronology of Margaret Cavendish; Further Reading; The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World; Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"If we forget the myth of Mad Madge and actually read her, we find not so much muddle and inconsistency as rhetorical skill deployed to generate a free play of ideas." Helen Hackett, Times Literary Supplement

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