Communities of care : the social ethics of Victorian fiction / Talia Schaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaffer, Talia, 1968- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Care of the sick in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 274 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Care Communities Today

Chapter 1 Ethics of Care and the Care Community

chapter 2 Austen, Dickens, and Brontë: Bodies before the Normate

chapter 3 Global Migrant Care and Emotional Labor in Villette

chapter 4 Beyond Sympathy: The State of Care in Daniel Deronda

chapter 5 Care Meets the Silent Treatment in The Wings of the Dove

chapter 6 Composite Fiction and the Care Community in The Heir of Redclyffe

Epilogue: Critical Care

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

9780691199634

0691199639

OCLC:

1259320219