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Notes
[1] For example, Susan James' edition,
Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings, (from the Cambridge Texts in
the History of Political Thought) includes Blazing World. For other
examples of significant studies which have addressed the political, gender
and philosophical dimensions of Blazing World see Eve Keller, "Producing
Petty Gods: Margaret Cavendish's Critique of Experimental Science," English
Literary History 64.2 (1997): 447-471 and Stephen Clucas, ed., A Princely
Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Aldershot:
Ashgate Press, 2003).
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