Organizing relation : attachment theory and literary criticism / Theo Davis.

Author/creator Davis, Theo author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025.
Descriptionxii, 198 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Attachment theory: systems of attunement and dissociation -- Attachment and literary turbulence -- Readings. Harriet E. Wilson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Herman Melville -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Charles W. Chestnutt.
Abstract "Organizing Relation is an interdisciplinary study of attachment theory and literary criticism, exploring how the understanding of subjectivity and relationality in attachment theory impacts literary criticism's sense of human connection and presence. It includes an introduction to the field of attachment theory and to allied work on sensorimotor and attachment-based trauma healing. It proposes how an attachment-based understanding of personhood, relationships, and embodiment might shift a range of fundamental aspects of humanistic thought, especially its understanding of subjectivity's relation to the body. It then explores the proposed intersection of literary criticism and attachment theory through a set of readings from nineteenth-century American literature, showing how attachment theory's perspectives shift the appearance of dependency, individuality, race, and relationship in the work of Harriet Wilson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Charles Chesnutt"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Davis, Theo Organizing relation New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025 9780197805602
Genre/formLiterary criticism.
Genre/formCritiques littéraires.
LCCN 2025036566
ISBN9780197805596
ISBN0197805590 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication

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