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Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

Hardback

Main Details

Title Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Margaret Cavendish
Edited by Susan James
SeriesCambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:346
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
British and Irish History
World history - c 1500 to c 1750
Social and political philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780521633499
ClassificationsDewey:320.092
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 28 August 2003
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first ever modern edition of her Divers Orations on English social and political life, together with a new student-friendly rendition of her imaginary voyage, A New World called the Blazing World. Susan James explains the allusions made in this classic text, and directs readers to the many intellectual debates with which Cavendish engages. Together these two works reveal the character and scope of Margaret Cavendish's political thought. She emerges as a singular and probing writer, who simultaneously upholds a conservative social and political order and destabilises it through her critical and unresolved observations about natural philosophy, scientific institutions, religion, and the relations between men and women.

Author Biography

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was the first Englishwoman to publish a large body of literary and philosophical work in her own lifetime. Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London. Her publications include Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford, 1997) and numerous articles.

Reviews

'... a handsome addition to syllabuses on seventeenth-century thought, early-modern women writers and gender studies.' Forum for Modern Language Studies