Relational Reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Talia Schaffer (0000-0001-8168-5117, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 343-350 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150323000128 |
| OpenAlex | W4381301032 |
| Language | EN |
Two recently published books ask the same question: How might we read textual representations of Victorian women by focusing on their relationality, not their separate individuality? Ronjaunee Chatterjee's Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Carolyn Dever's Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field both stress that multiple genres of Victorian writing depend upon the intimate play of tension and identification among women who are not-quite-one. They enact that idea, however, in rather different ways
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Chatterjee · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Identification (biology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Subjectivity · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |