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- Title
“A World of her own Inv orld of her own Invention”: Teaching Mar eaching Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World in the Early British Liter in the Early British Literature Survey and Be y and Beyond.
- Authors
Rapatz, Vanessa L.
- Abstract
Margaret Cavendish has only recently been included in the canonical literature anthologies and even then, the samplings of her prolific writings are severely truncated. However, even this small taste of Cavendish’s poems and excerpts of A Description of a New World called The Blazing World leave early British literature survey students hungry for more. Frequently, students in the survey choose to focus on Cavendish’s writing for their research projects in which they practice feminist and queer readings and engage with Cavendish as a key player in utopian and science fiction genres. Beyond the survey course, Blazing World works wonderfully in courses focused on Renaissance Utopias as well as transhistorical utopian and dystopian fiction and serves as the perfect frame text for literature and gender courses that focus on female world making. In the gender and literature course, Blazing World pairs excellently with more contemporary and intersectional feminist world makers including Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and Alison Bechdel.
- Subjects
BRITISH literature; NEWCASTLE, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, ca. 1624-1674; FICTION genres; DYSTOPIAS; FEMINISM; SCIENCE fiction; STUDENT surveys
- Publication
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2157-7129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5038/2157-7129.14.1.1353