The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World

ISBN-13: 9781554812424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str.

Margaret Cavendish; Sara Mendelson

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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. 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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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World

Appendix A: Selections from Margaret Cavendish, Poems, and Fancies (1653)

1. Of Many Worlds in This World
2. A World in an Eare-Ring
3. The Squaring of the Circle

Appendix B: Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis (1627)

Appendix C: Selections from William Cavendish, Letters and Poems in Honour of … Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1676)

1. From Joseph Glanvill
2. From Walter Charleton
3. From Constantijn Huygens

Appendix D: Aphra Behn, Preface to Her Translation of Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1688)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography