Abstract:This article explores the pedagogical significance of non‐static and hybrid utopian readings and writings by focusing on Margaret Cavendish's educationally‐philosophically neglected female utopia The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. It questions the exaggerated, inflated and exclusivist emphasis on the pedagogical benefits of homologous spatial signifiers of entry into utopia and return to home and draws examples of utopian passages across genres, texts, minds and worlds from the writing o… Show more
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