{"product_id":"the-blazing-world-margaret-cavendish-9780648595205","title":"The Blazing World","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1666, The Blazing World stands as one of the first Western works of Science Fiction. In its assertion that all animal flesh is made of rational matter (including that of the female body) Margaret Cavendish wrote the only 17th century text of its kind - a book of gendered natural philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaught in frost at the North Pole, Cavendish tells the story of a woman who is saved by crossing over from our world, to a whole new Utopia. Amongst gems and stars she finds a city of half-human half-beast scientists. Worm- Men, Bear-Men, Bird-Men and Fish-Men welcome her to their land. Together they toil in their investigations, describing Nature afresh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCavendish predicted motors, submarines and nautical machinery long before these technologies came to exist in the present. As more than just a work of fantastical invention, The Blazing World is important for its portrayal of invention itself. Enlightenment technology is described here as a recourse to protect the world. All of it. The feeling and reasoning matter of all animals, minerals, trees and plants is significant for its proto-environmentalism and for its path-setting form: philosophy as poetry; science as poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Cavendish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 064859520X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780648595205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Formling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.31d","brand":"Margaret Cavendish","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941612486911,"sku":"9780648595205","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_687fa3b1-39ac-4efe-9f9f-e7d1b85066ba.jpg?v=1681453937","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-blazing-world-margaret-cavendish-9780648595205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}