Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader Paperback - 2000
by Margaret Cavendish; Sylvia Bowerbank (Editor); Sara Mendelson (Editor)
From the rear cover
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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- Title Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
- Author Margaret Cavendish; Sylvia Bowerbank (Editor); Sara Mendelson (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 332
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press Inc, Orchard Park, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 20, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9781551111735 / 155111173X
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00269037
- Dewey Decimal Code 828.409
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