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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Blazing World"”.
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
… in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural philosophy incorporates rationalistic and subjective elements, urging contemporary natural philosophers to recognize that pure objectivity is unattainable through any method of inquiry and that reason is essential …
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Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish
… their knowledge and questions about the natural world by analyzing the themes presented in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.</p>
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… analyses of satires like The Virtuoso (1676), Blazing World (1668), and the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (pub.1741). However, science was widely embraced as a reliable mode of investigation, and people were generally enthusiastic about it. Why then are there so many farcical natural …
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“She erected schools, and founded several societies”: Reimagining Margaret Cavendish’s Visit to The Royal Society
… I demonstrate that excerpts from Cavendish’s The Blazing World which deal with scientific experimentalism are more nuanced than previous commentators have proposed. This approach challenges the narrative surrounding her visit and suggests that the relationship between Cavendish and the Royal …
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Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
… Atlantis (1627), and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1655) to reveal its incompleteness and contradictions. In particular, the making of the modern body relied on the very humoral theory and cosmology of correspondence to which it is often opposed. This dissertation restores vital …
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Working theory : an analysis of the use and misuse performance tools
… to a specific chapter; Siri Hustvedt's novel The Blazing World is discussed in the chapter of the Brain, and used to speak about the relationship between an expressed, materialised art object, and its invisible progenitor or counterpart which exists privately in the mind of the artist. Boris …
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Cabalas and Cabals in Restoration Popular Literature
… traditional, philosophical cabala in her work Blazing World as an avenue to the authority necessary to create worlds in which she, through a cabal, can control the exploration of scientific theories and establish a monarchy that brings about peace. Cabala also shapes Blazing World's structure …