Emily Thomas: “Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World”
Emily Thomas: “Travel Writing as Thought Experiments: Science, Francis Bacon, and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World”
ABSTRACT Travel has a long and intimate history with philosophy. Travel also has a long and intimate relationship with fiction. Sometimes travel fiction acts as ‘thought experiments’, experiments that we can run through in our heads. This talk explores a 1666 fiction travelogue, Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World. In the novel, a virtuous young lady is […]