Libros de Margaret Cavendish

Cartas Sociables

• 496 páginas
• En "Cartas sociables" (1664), Margaret Cavendish concibe su amistad platónica y epistolar con otra noble dama que, como ella, se encuentra lejos de Inglaterra y con la que se cartea imaginariamente. En estas misivas, de interés...

El Sueño De Una Cosa

• 249 páginas

El Món Resplendent

• 320 páginas

O Mundo Resplandecente

• 166 páginas
• O Mundo Resplandecente é unha descrición dun reino utópico e satírico situado noutro mundo, ao que se pode chegar a través do Polo Norte. Unha muller entra nese outro mundo e convértese na emperatriz dunha socieda...

The Female Academy

• When Margaret Cavendish published her first collection of dramatic work in 1662, she was keenly..

Bell In Campo And The Sociable Companions

• 230 páginas
• Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions are scathing satires that speak to the role of womenâ&#...

The Convent Of Pleasure

• 204 páginas
• Margaret Lucas Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), began her literary career in 1653, with the publication of a volume of her poems and another of her "philosophical fancies." Her writing continued at a hectic pace for nearly two decades....

The Blazing World

• 98 páginas
• When a young woman is shipwrecked in the kingdom of the Blazing World, she befriends the natives, a highly intelligent and tolerant group of humanoid animals. With the help of the locals, the woman becomes the Empress of the island, and leads the Blazing...

The Description Of A New World Called The Blazing-world

• The Blazing-World is a fanciful depiction of a utopian kingdom in another world that can be reached via the North Pole. It may be "the only known work of utopian fiction by a woman in the 17th century." It can also easily be placed in the genres...

The Life Of The Thrice, Noble, High And Puissant Prince William Cavendish, Duke, Marquess And Earl Of Newcastle

• The Life of the thrice, noble, high and puissant Prince William Cavendish, Duke, Marquess and Earl of Newcastle is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1667.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as...

Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Margaret Cavendish

• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the..

Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

• 346 páginas
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system. This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and...

Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy

Margaret Cavendish: Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy

• 287 páginas
• Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism which was taught in the universities in the...

Margaret Cavendish

• 229 páginas
• Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Duchess of Newcastle and one of the best-known women writers of the her time, is enjoying a revival in the wake of Aphra Behn's canonization: She appears in the Norton Anthology of English Literature , her poetry will...

The Blazing World And Other Writings

• 272 páginas
• 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...