Lauren Berlant Livres

The book explores the evolution of sentimental "women's culture" in the U.S., tracing its journey from the impactful narrative of Uncle Tom's Cabin through the emotional storytelling of 1950s melodrama to the modern genre of chick lit. It examines how these cultural expressions shape political ideas and concepts of national identity, highlighting the significant role women's narratives play in reflecting and influencing societal values and belonging.

Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution.

Ties together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations.

The Hundreds-composed of pieces one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long-is Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart's collaborative experimental writing project in which they strive toward sensing and capturing the resonances that operate at the ordinary level of everyday experience.

Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world, focusing on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced.

Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She shows how Hawthorne's idea of citizenship emerged from an attempt to adjudicate among the official and the popular, the national and the local, the collective and the individual, utopia and history.At the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of The Scarlet Letter , analyzing the modes and effects of national identity that characterize the narrator's representation of Puritan culture and his construction of the novel's political present tense. This analysis emerges from an introductory chapter on American citizenship in the 1850s and a following chapter on national fantasy, ranging from Hawthorne's early work "Alice Doane's Appeal" to the Statue of Liberty. In her conclusion, Berlant suggests that Hawthorne views everyday life and local political identities as alternate routes to the revitalization of the political and utopian promises of modern national life.

Exploring the interplay between desire and love, this theoretical novella examines how psychoanalytic theories shape our understanding of intimacy. It contrasts the psychoanalytic view of desire as a fundamental aspect of identity with a broader perspective on love, emphasizing context and history. The first entry focuses on desire as an emotional connection rooted in attachment theory, while the second delves into the complexities of love, romance, and fantasy within personal and cultural frameworks. Ultimately, it suggests that fantasy is essential for the existence of love.