“YET IS SHE A PLAIN AND RATIONAL WRITER”: MARGARET CAVENDISH’S SELF-FASHIONING IN THE BLAZING WORLD, POLITICS, SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
“YET IS SHE A PLAIN AND RATIONAL WRITER”: MARGARET CAVENDISH’S SELF-FASHIONING IN THE BLAZING WORLD, POLITICS, SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
Author(s): Juan de Dios Torralbo CaballeroSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Blazing World;Cavendish;natural science;restoration literature;selffashioning;
Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on The Description of a New World, Called the BlazingWorld by Margaret Cavendish. It explores the political undertones and the support ofthe monarchy that permeates this text published in 1666, alongside Observations uponExperimental Philosophy. It also discusses its scientific and philosophical content,examining the dialogue used, which is based on the theories of contemporaryscientists. The article will also study the author's self-depiction in The Blazing World,tangentially citing several strategies of self-fashioning contained within Poems andFancies (1653) and Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil (1656).
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 24/2018
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 19-35
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
