Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for...
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Author: Ronjaunee Chatterjee
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Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Chatterjee, Ronjaunee

Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

BD$143.03

Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

BD$143.03
Author: Ronjaunee Chatterjee
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity--for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject--and shows us paths to thinking subjectivity, race, and gender anew in literature and in our wider social world.

Through fresh, sophisticated readings of Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, and Wilkie Collins in conversation with psychoanalysis, Black feminist and queer-of-color theory, and continental philosophy, Ronjaunee Chatterjee uncovers a lexicon of feminine singularity that manifests across poetry and prose through likeness and minimal difference, rather than individuality and identity. Reading for singularity shows us the ways femininity is fundamentally entangled with racial difference in the nineteenth century and well into the contemporary, as well as how rigid categories can be unsettled and upended.

Grappling with the ongoing violence embedded in the Western liberal imaginary, Feminine Singularity invites readers to commune with the subversive potentials in nineteenth-century literature for thinking subjectivity today.



Author: Ronjaunee Chatterjee
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 08/09/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781503630802

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