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eheslosz 's review for:
The Blazing World and Other Writings
by Margaret Cavendish
when I tried to read this three years ago, I rated it 3/5.
to be fair, it is such a chaotic narrative... very hard to follow, and so much weird pseudo-scientific 17th c. stuff in there.
but now that I appreciate the context (this is 1666 and novels really did not exist! even for a hundred years after this, novels – in the way we enjoy them now – did not really exist) and allowed myself to sink into it a bit more, I actually found this very interesting.
some fascinating and surprising implications about gender, empire, art, language, fiction, everything!
absolutely would recommend. quite readable for its time.
to be fair, it is such a chaotic narrative... very hard to follow, and so much weird pseudo-scientific 17th c. stuff in there.
but now that I appreciate the context (this is 1666 and novels really did not exist! even for a hundred years after this, novels – in the way we enjoy them now – did not really exist) and allowed myself to sink into it a bit more, I actually found this very interesting.
some fascinating and surprising implications about gender, empire, art, language, fiction, everything!
absolutely would recommend. quite readable for its time.