{"product_id":"organizing-relation-attachment-theory-and-literary-criticism-hardcover","title":"Organizing Relation: Attachment Theory and Literary Criticism - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTheo Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrganizing Relation\u003c\/em\u003e investigates how attachment theory can shift major conversations in literary criticism about connection, personhood, and aesthetic experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the author's experience along with extensive scholarly research into attachment theory, somatic and relational healing, and childhood development, the book delineates the emergence of subjectivity from micro-episodes of attuned connection and the arising of attachment trauma in the absence of adequate experiences of attunement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe emergent understanding of intermittent passages in which embodied presence self-organizes in response to relational episodes prompts a reorganization of how literary studies approaches subjectivity, language, and the body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrganizing Relation\u003c\/em\u003e pursues that reorganization through a portfolio of readings in nineteenth-century American literature, in which relational turbulence provokes different experiences of power and dependency, opening up passages of dissociated chaos and of brilliant, brief connected life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTheo Davis \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor and Chair of English at Northeastern, where she teaches 19th-century American literature and critical theory. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eOrnamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson \u0026amp; Whitman \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eFormalism, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eExperience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.46 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336992121197,"sku":"9780197805596","price":176.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/NKO2tsDuzO9780197805596.webp?v=1778922828","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/organizing-relation-attachment-theory-and-literary-criticism-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}