Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader (Broadview Literary Texts)
by Margaret Cavendish
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Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. "Paper Bodies" was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make "a great Blazing Light" after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish's most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing show more World(1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish's brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life(1667), her playThe Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader. show lessTags
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- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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- 828.409 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1625-1702 Individual authors not limited to or chiefly identified with one specific form.
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- PR3605 .N2 .A6 — Language and Literature English English Literature 17th and 18th centuries (1640-1770)
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