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Its lucid introduction and careful selection of texts and contexts adumbrate key topics in Cavendish studies... -- Anna Battigelli, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Paper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish... -- James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University
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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 World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world.
Its lucid introduction and careful selection of texts and contexts adumbrate key topics in Cavendish studies... -- Anna Battigelli, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Paper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish... -- James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University
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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 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 play The 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.
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- Cavendish And Shakespeare: Interconnections by Katherine Romack on page 39, and page 86
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- Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680 by Sharon Cadman Seelig in Back Matter
- Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman by Carole Levin in Front Matter
- British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800 by David Armitage in Back Matter
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