Flamboyant theatrical & 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 & 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 & uses her power to ensure that it is free of war religious division & unfair sexual discrimination This volume also
Includes:: The Contract a romance in which love & law work harmoniously together & Assaulted & Pursued Chastity which explores the power & freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man