Artikel
"No other mystery but reckoning our counting" : Margaret Cavendishs "Blazing-world" und die Konstruktion des wissenschaftlichen Weltbildes im 17. Jahrhundert
Verfasst von:
Pordzik, Ralph
in:
Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift
Heidelberg:
1999
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275 - 290 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Pordzik, Ralph |
| In: | Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift |
| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| The following article explores the role othe Royalist writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, has played in establishing the scientific world picture of the seventeenth century. Relocating her highly speculative, fictitious text "the Blazing-World" (1666) in the historical and pragmatic background of Restoration England, it confronts contemporary readings of Cavendish as either an early feminist writer or a weird and capricious aristocrat with an assessment of her deep involvement with the scientific and philosophical debates of the seventeenth century. It will be seen that Cavendish not only seeks to transcend the antagonism between the older hermetic tradition of Renaissance thought and the "new science" of Bacon and his followers, but that she is also a keen observer of scientific developments in her own time, arguing strongly in favour of positivism, relativism and atomism and employing fiction as a strategy to render the uknown and unfathomable in nature and man into more common terms. the ambiguity of the novel's narrator-protagonist and to undermine notions of historical objectivity in what is Atwood's first historical novel. | |
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