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SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: “Pregnant Poems: Margaret Cavendish’
 s Poetics of Immanence”
DESCRIPTION:–presented by Shannon Forest\, Ph.D. Student\, University of 
 California\, Los Angeles\n\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Group\n\nO
 nline event via Zoom\nTo register for this event and receive the pre-circu
 lated paper draft\, please email the Early Modern Research Group.\n\nIn P
 oems and Fancies (1653)\, Margaret Cavendish writes: “Motion can’t di
 late nor yet contract/ A body which is close\, firm\, and compact.” If f
 or Cavendish motion depends upon space between things\, and if her project
  is “patterning out” the self-motion of matter\, then her poetry’s p
 atterned elements produce a double movement: a contraction of the implicat
 ed depth [the conditions for reality\, the pre-objective\, the unutterable
 \, or what Deleuze calls “the virtual”] that wrests it to the verge of
  perceptibility\, and a dilation that extends it back into the “confusio
 n” from which it emerges. In brief\, Cavendish’s poetry enacts\, in th
 e mind of the reader\, the motions it attempts to map. To attend to the mo
 tions of her poetry—a distinctive stratum of her thought irreducible to 
 her philosophy—is to become attuned to the elasticity of her monism and 
 its palpable stakes: a poetics of immanence that finds unexpected but comp
 elling interlocutors in Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty.\n\nThis project interfa
 ces with Liza Blake’s digital edition of Poems and Fancies (1653)—one 
 of Cavendish’s neglected\, early texts that was not widely available in 
 its entirety prior to 2019. It is therefore among the first to consider th
 e text’s poetics as a matter of serious scholarly interest. Forest sugge
 sts that “minor” works by “minor” writers in the period often purs
 ue patterns of thought invisible to a historicist methodology because\, as
  Walter Benjamin tells us\, historicism is always of the victor. Reading w
 orks that sought to build epistemes that never took root—far territories
  and their bridges\, which have fallen into the abyss of time—demands al
 ternate methods. This project\, then\, which uses adjacent patterns of tho
 ught that emerged most poignantly in the 20th century [especially in pheno
 menology] to access quanta of the past\, may be more broadly relevant to 
 those interested in experimental methodologies.\n\nShannon Forest is a Ph
 .D. student in the Department of English at UCLA. Her recent work consider
 s “minor” literatures of the 17th century—and the possibilities of t
 heir “irregular” patterns of thought—that interface with ideas tradi
 tionally associated with 20th and 21st century philosophy. To these ends\,
  Forest is pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies\, as 
 well as the Experimental Critical Theory Certificate with Professor Ken Re
 inhard. Her work this year is supported by an Early Modern Certificate Sum
 mer Mentorship through the Center for 17th- &amp\; 18th-Century Studies an
 d a Graduate Research Mentorship\, both under the advisement of Professor 
 Lowell Gallagher. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Modern Literatur
 e. She is currently co-editing a volume of the first Complete Works of Mar
 garet Cavendish\, which will also issue in an open-access digital edition\
 , in a collective effort to bring Cavendish’s more obscure works to a wi
 der audience.\n\n\n\nImage: Frontispiece of Margaret Cavendish\, Duchess o
 f Newcastle from the Clark Library's copy of the 1653 edition of Poems an
 d Fancies. 
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