{"product_id":"organizing-relation-theo-davis-9780197805596","title":"Organizing Relation: Attachment Theory and Literary Criticism","description":"\u003cem\u003eOrganizing Relation\u003c\/em\u003e investigates how attachment theory can shift major conversations in literary criticism about connection, personhood, and aesthetic experience. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Theo Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197805590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197805596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Theo Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47637467758847,"sku":"9780197805596","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9bda425-61e6-4a2e-8620-21ef533f2d60.jpg?v=1765116428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/organizing-relation-theo-davis-9780197805596","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}