This book explores desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism" in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. To begin with the study's underlying paradox, "spiritual materialism": the author wishes to understand why the act of grasping materialities-a sob in the body or the body itself-has so often required a spiritual discourse; why materialism, as a way of naming matter-on-its-own-terms, and material relations that still lie submerged, hidden from view, evoke the shadowy forms we call "spiritual."
| ISBN: | 9780804723442 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 1994 |
| Author: | Kathryn Bond Stockton |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 300 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |