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Figuring
Corrinne Harol
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“Figuring: Margaret Cavendish’s Critique of Imagining and Worlding,” undertakes a case study of Cavendish’s foray into a favored intellectual strategy of modernity: to imagine a world (and therefore a politics) that follows the laws of the natural world as discovered by science. The worldview of liberalism is grounded in ideas of diversity and tolerance, the possibility of an ever-expanding, cosmopolitan world.i This is the proto-liberal view that Cavendish’s proto-conservatism, vitalism, and theory of the literary imagination finds untenable. Cavendish’s conservatism is manifested explicitly in the representations of sovereign violence that seem necessary to protect worlds and implicitly in the significance of a method of “figuration” that Cavendish theorizes—and practices—as the foundation of form in the natural world, the social world, and the literary imagination. Such figuration cannot escape the violent reality of secular nationalism inherent in the notion of “worlds.”
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Harol, C. (2022). Figuring. Cambridge University Press eBooks, 103–133. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009273497.006
Harol, Corrinne. “Figuring.” Cambridge University Press eBooks, 2022, pp. 103–33, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009273497.006.
Harol, Corrinne. 2022. “Figuring.” Cambridge University Press eBooks: 103–33. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009273497.006.
Harol, C. (2022) ‘Figuring’, Cambridge University Press eBooks, pp. 103–133. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009273497.006.
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