The Blazing World and Other Writings PDF Margaret Cavendish

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The other two texts included here are more complex, lengthy and ambitious. They extend Cavendish’s ambivalent fascination with the possibilities of romance as the scene of a woman’s heroic agency and successful negotiation of the theatres of power; and her commitment to the representation of women as subjects of desire and subjects in discourse.

‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’ is an allegorical romance in which an anonymous heiress is forced from her home and family in the Kingdom of Riches by the dangers of war. Shipwrecked in the Kingdom of Sensuality, she is ‘assaulted and pursued’ by that kingdom’s married Prince, whose behaviour is by turns noble and dissolute. After shooting and wounding the Prince to preserve her honour, the young lady, now known as ‘Miseria’, is driven to a near-fatal suicide attempt. She cuts her hair and escapes dressed as a page, leaving letters signed ‘Affectionata’. Disg

• Book Name: The Blazing World and Other Writings pdf
• Author Name Margaret Cavendish
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 1994

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