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 work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empr...
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 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 discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.
Virginia Woolf, in A Room of One's Own, figures Margaret Cavendish as 'a vision of loneliness and riot ... as if some giant cucumber had spread itself over all the roses and carnations in the garden and choked them to death'. (查看原文)
Lastly, They shewed the Empress a Flea, and a Lowse; which Creatures through the Microscope appear'd so terrible to her sight, that they had almost put her into a swoon; the description of all their parts would be very tedious to relate, and therefore I'le forbear it at this present. The Empress, after the view of those strangely-shaped Creatures, pitied much those that are molested with them, especially poor Beggars, which although they have nothing to live on themselves, are yet necessitated to maintain and feed of their own flesh and blood, a company of such terrible Creatures called Lice; who, instead of thanks, do reward them with pains, and torment them for giving them nourishment and food. But after the Empress had seen the shapes of these monstrous Creatures, she desir'd to know, W... (查看原文)
0 有用 滚雪球 2023-02-11 22:43:16 广东
作者构造了一个现实中不存在的世界，具有很多神奇的事物。个人不太喜欢（甚至有点讨厌）作者的写作风格，也无法领略其创作的high点。读这本书只是为了学习英语，本书不太适合初学者，对于已无语法障碍和具有良好英语思维的人，可以一试。
0 有用 長夕 2018-11-08 07:52:46
One need only a theater in his mind.
0 有用 桑葚公主 2022-12-13 06:57:43 北京
没想到卡文迪什女神文笔这么简洁明快！
0 有用 鲁蔚 2017-06-14 11:13:52
1666！了不起！
2 有用 enthalpy 2022-02-22 05:23:34
22.2.21：读了Assaulted and Pursued Chastity——真抓马！！22.2.27：读了The Blazing World。算是Assaulted的脑洞大开升级版。Empress的长篇哲学问答真挺无聊，甚至还前后重复（以至于让我怀疑Cavendish是不是忘了自己前面已经写过的内容....）；Empress对自己祖国的拯救之旅充满了暴力、压迫和殖民扩张的意味，原本应是正义... 22.2.21：读了Assaulted and Pursued Chastity——真抓马！！22.2.27：读了The Blazing World。算是Assaulted的脑洞大开升级版。Empress的长篇哲学问答真挺无聊，甚至还前后重复（以至于让我怀疑Cavendish是不是忘了自己前面已经写过的内容....）；Empress对自己祖国的拯救之旅充满了暴力、压迫和殖民扩张的意味，原本应是正义的战争似乎已经变味；Cavendish对ambition的desire不加掩饰的强调，是她有别于大部分早期现代女作家的一大特点。 (展开)