{"product_id":"feminine-singularity-the-politics-of-subjectivity-in-nineteenth-century-literature-hardback-9781503630802","title":"Feminine Singularity; The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Hardback) 9781503630802","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFeminine Singularity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRonjaunee Chatterjee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503630802\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 August 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 6 halftones\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.422 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and original, \u003ci\u003eFeminine Singularity\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the importance of literary texts in theorizing alternative political ways of being in the world.\"—Zarena Aslami, Michigan State University \"Chatterjee desegregates Victorian studies and erases the field's boundaries, brilliantly reading 19th-century literature with third-wave feminism, Black radicalism, and continental theory. A compelling and exhilaratingly learned call to think fearlessly, as if our future depended on it.\"—Elaine Freedgood, New York University \"[A] theoretically sophisticated volume which successfully and insightfully charts a vision to help us rethink racial and gendered subjectivity not only in Victorian studies but in current Western culture which despite its historical ideology of individuation, continues to be defined by otherness, violence, and difference.\"—Jolene Zigarovich, \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Gender Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eFeminine Singularity\u003c\/i\u003e [is] a book offering vigorously creative ideas for rethinking what a feminine subject could be.\"—Susan David Bernstein, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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\"? \u003ci\u003eFeminine Singularity\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrappling with the ongoing violence embedded in the Western liberal imaginary, \u003ci\u003eFeminine Singularity\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to commune with the subversive potentials in nineteenth-century literature for thinking subjectivity today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003en\/a: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Lewis Carroll's Alice Books and the Ones and Twos of Femininity\u003cbr\u003e  2. Charles Baudelaire and Feminine Singularity\u003cbr\u003e  3. Precarious Lives: Christina Rossetti and the Form of Likeness\u003cbr\u003e  4. Seriality, Singularity, Sociality: The Case for Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681250963736,"sku":"9781503630802","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/feminine-singularity-the-politics-of-subjectivity-in-nineteenth-century-literature-hardback-9781503630802","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}