The Blazing World and Other Writings (1666-1668) - Margaret Cavendish

Written by Margaret Cavendish
Read by Abigail Thaw
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Penguin Classics
· Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
· Release date: 07-02-20
· Publisher: Penguin Audio

Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century’s most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.

Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, sometimes called Mad Madge, was a groundbreaking writer—a utopian visionary, a scientist, a science-fiction pioneer. She moved in philosophical circles that included Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, and she produced startlingly modern poems unlike anything published in the seventeenth century or since, at once scientific and visionary, full of feminist passion and deep sympathy with the nonhuman world. In recent years, Cavendish has found many new admirers, and this selection of her verse by Michael Robbins is an ideal introduction to her singular poetic world.

The audiobook is divided into the section as the Penguin Classic edition.

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