The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish; Illustrated by Rebekka Dunlap-Sealed

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This book is in brand new factory-sealed condition. 

The Blazing World is one of the most fascinating, unusual and astonishing pieces of literature in the English language. Written in 1666 by Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, the story follows a young woman who is transported to a world of animal-people, becomes their empress, and eventually leads an invasion back into her own world, complete with bird-man bombardiers and submarine ships. In this volume Rebekka Dunlaps illustrates a tale of spirit possession, astral projection, glimmering multiverse, and an interdimensional otherworldly queer romance that is centuries ahead of its time. Featuring an introduction by award-winning speculative fiction author Brooke Bolander, and a biographical afterword by Cavendish scholar James Fitzmaurice. 12" x 9". 154 pages.

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Synopsis

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.