Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
It is often thought that the numerous contradictory perspectives in Margaret Cavendish's writings demonstrate her inability to reconcile her feminism with her conservative, royalist politics. In this book Lisa Walters challenges this view and demo...
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
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 the First
Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science ...
Grounds of Natural Philosophy
This edition aims to make Margaret Cavendishs most mature philosophical work more accessible to students and scholars of the period. Grounds of Natural Philosophy is important not only because it is Cavendishs final articulation of her metaphysics...
Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings
Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings
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Brittiska kvinnliga poeter : en antologi
I denna bok presenterar poeten Lis Lovén sexton brittiska, kvinnliga författare från Margaret Cavendish på 1600-talet till Jane Austen, systrarna Brontë, Ann Radcliffe, Beatrix Potter, Virginia Woolf med mera? Många är främst kända som romanförfat...
Blazing World and Other Writings
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...
Mikhail And Margarita
Mikhail And Margarita [Bok / Pocket]
The Well-Ordered Universe
The prolific Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) published books on natural philosophy as well as stories, plays, poems, orations, allegories, and letters. Her mature philosophical system offered a unique panpsychist theory of Nature as composed of a c...
The Duchess's Shells
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (17151785), was one of the wealthiest women in eighteenth-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was ...
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
In this remarkable proto-science fiction story from 1666--which also bear striking resemblances with modern fantasy--the author Lady Margaret Cavendish explores an allegorical and satirical world, which she finds through a portal at the North Pole. The bizarre beings in this world need to understand the true meaning of science and philosophy, which Lady Cavendish provides them, and thus she becomes their empress. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World criticize and explore such issues as science, gender and power. The natural philosopher, author and poet Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73) lived during the scientific revolution and participated in this brand new world, with contemporaries such as Descartes, Leibniz and Newton. One of her correspondents was the astronomer Huygens. She was the first--and during a long time the only--woman who was allowed to attend a meeting at Royal Society of London. Margaret was viewed by her contemporaries as
Monster, She Wrote
Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier? Have you read the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-te...
Margaret the First
An inventive, spirited novel about a pioneering woman who was shamed for daring to challenge male dominance in the arts and sciences four centuries ago. Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to address the Royal Society and the first Englishwoman...
Project Rainbow
'A master psychologist - cycling's answer to Brian Clough.' MARK CAVENDISH The inside story of Mark Cavendish's Rainbow Jersey Winning World Title of 2011 Twenty five years ago, British road cycling was in the doldrums: today it is at the top of t...
