Organizing relation : attachment theory and literary criticism / Theo Davis.
| Author/creator | Davis, Theo author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025. |
| Description | xii, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Davis, Theo Organizing relation New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025 9780197805602 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2025036566 |
| ISBN | 9780197805596 |
| ISBN | 0197805590 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
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