Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Schaffer, Talia
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Schaffer, Talia

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel In Communities of Care, Talia...
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Author: Talia Schaffer
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Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Schaffer, Talia

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

BD$113.31
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Schaffer, Talia

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

BD$113.31
Author: Talia Schaffer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel

In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, Schaffer proposes a theory of communal care and a mode of critical reading centered on an ethics of care.

In the Victorian era, medical science offered little hope for cure of illness or disability, and chronic invalidism and lengthy convalescences were common. Small communities might gather around afflicted individuals to minister to their needs and palliate their suffering. Communities of Care examines these groups in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront , Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, and Charlotte Yonge, and studies the relationships that they exemplify. How do carers become part of the community? How do they negotiate status? How do caring emotions develop? And what does it mean to think of care as an activity rather than a feeling? Contrasting the Victorian emphasis on community and social structure with modern individualism and interiority, Schaffer's sympathetic readings draw us closer to the worldview from which these novels emerged. Schaffer also considers the ways in which these models of carework could inform and improve practice in criticism, in teaching, and in our daily lives.

Through the lens of care, Schaffer discovers a vital form of communal relationship in the Victorian novel. Communities of Care also demonstrates that literary criticism done well is the best care that scholars can give to texts.

Author: Talia Schaffer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.30w x 1.26d
ISBN: 9780691199634


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About the Author
Talia Schaffer is professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Romance's Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction; Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction; and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. Twitter @taliaschaffer1
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