{"product_id":"paper-bodies-a-margaret-cavendish-reader-9781551111735","title":"Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World\u003c\/em\u003e (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish's brief autobiography, \u003cem\u003eA True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life\u003c\/em\u003e (1667), her play \u003cem\u003eThe Convent of Pleasure\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePaper Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish. The book also sets the work in context by printing extracts from Francis Bacon, Mary Evelyn, and Aphra Behn. Cavendish scholars will be very pleased by the appearance of this highly useful collection.” — James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cavendish always hoped that a future audience might read her texts—the ‘paper bodies’ that remained after her death—more attentively than had her contemporaries. This anthology facilitates that readership. Its lucid introduction and careful selection of texts and contexts adumbrate key topics in Cavendish studies, and its potential to enrich courses on early modern literature, the history of science, and gender studies is great.” — Anna Battigelli, SUNY, Plattsburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBirth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGender and Serious Play\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen and the New Science\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Brief Chronology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Birth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eA True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life\u003c\/em\u003e (1656)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelections from \u003cem\u003eCCXI Sociable Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (1664)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface to \u003cem\u003eOrations of Divers Sorts\u003c\/em\u003e (1662)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetter of Mary Evelyn to Ralph Bohun (c.1667)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Gender and Serious Play\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Convent of Pleasure\u003c\/em\u003e (1668)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface to the Reader, \u003cem\u003eThe Worlds Olio\u003c\/em\u003e (1655)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eFemale Orations\u003c\/em\u003e, from \u003cem\u003eOrations of Divers Sorts\u003c\/em\u003e (1662)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Women and the New Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World\u003c\/em\u003e (1666)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelections from \u003cem\u003ePoems and Fancies\u003c\/em\u003e (1635)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrancis Bacon, \u003cem\u003eNew Atlantis\u003c\/em\u003e (1627)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelections from \u003cem\u003eLetters and Poems in Honour of … Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle\u003c\/em\u003e (1676)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAphra Behn, Preface to her translation of Fontenelle’s \u003cem\u003eEntretiens sur la pluralite des mondes\u003c\/em\u003e (1688)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited and Select Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770290143575,"sku":"9781551111735","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551111735.jpg?v=1758725028","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/paper-bodies-a-margaret-cavendish-reader-9781551111735","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}