Margaret Cavendish released her Poems and Fancies during a brief reprieve from exile, and at a time when international conversations on questions regarding science, mathematics, and metaphysics significantly advanced the state of knowledge across Britain and Europe despite war and political turmoil. This volume offers the first complete modernized version of the third edition of Cavendish’s book, including prefaces and dedications, all 274 poems on nature’s various avatars, interludes and masques, and the final prose parable, The Animal Parliament. Cavendish offers views on physics, chemistry, algebraic geometry, medicine, political philosophy, ethics, psychology, and animal intelligence, as she develops her own theory of vital matter within the scope of nature’s ordering principles.
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. The Toronto Series: Volume 64
- ISBN10 086698593X
- ISBN13 9780866985932
- Publish Date 16 July 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 462
- Language English