TY  - GEN
T1  - Communities of care : the social ethics of Victorian fiction
A1  - Schaffer, Talia, 1968-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1259320219
AB  - 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 Brontë, 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.
OP  - 274
CN  - PR451
SN  - 9780691226514
SN  - 0691226512
SN  - 9780691199634
SN  - 0691199639
KW  - English fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Care of the sick in literature.
KW  - Roman anglais : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Soins aux malades dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Care of the sick in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Academic writing.
KW  - Alterity.
KW  - Anne Elliot.
KW  - Anthony Trollope.
KW  - Aunt.
KW  - Author.
KW  - Awareness.
KW  - Bildungsroman.
KW  - Caregiver.
KW  - Case study.
KW  - Character (arts).
KW  - Child care.
KW  - Clam chowder.
KW  - Classroom.
KW  - Communitarianism.
KW  - Community service.
KW  - Copyright.
KW  - Criticism.
KW  - Daniel Deronda.
KW  - Disability.
KW  - Disease.
KW  - Dombey and Son.
KW  - Ebenezer Scrooge.
KW  - Egalitarianism.
KW  - Emotional labor.
KW  - Employment.
KW  - Enmeshment.
KW  - Esther Summerson.
KW  - Ethicist.
KW  - Ethics of care.
KW  - Ethics.
KW  - Extended family.
KW  - Generosity.
KW  - Genre.
KW  - George Eliot.
KW  - Governess.
KW  - Guy Mannering.
KW  - Household.
KW  - Indication (medicine).
KW  - Individualism.
KW  - Institution.
KW  - Intertextuality.
KW  - Jane Austen.
KW  - Jane Eyre.
KW  - Kinship.
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Little Dorrit.
KW  - Manifesto.
KW  - Maternalism.
KW  - Mentorship.
KW  - Minor Characters.
KW  - Modernity.
KW  - Morality.
KW  - Mourning.
KW  - Mrs.
KW  - Narrative.
KW  - Nel Noddings.
KW  - Newspaper.
KW  - Novelist.
KW  - Nursing.
KW  - Oppression.
KW  - Parenting.
KW  - Performativity.
KW  - Personal network.
KW  - Personhood.
KW  - Persuasion (novel).
KW  - Pickup truck.
KW  - Poetry.
KW  - Political philosophy.
KW  - Postmodernism.
KW  - Princeton University Press.
KW  - Public sphere.
KW  - Racism.
KW  - Ray Pahl.
KW  - Requirement.
KW  - Restorative justice.
KW  - Rhetoric.
KW  - Romanticism.
KW  - Sanditon.
KW  - Sensibility.
KW  - Sentimentality.
KW  - Sibling.
KW  - Social relation.
KW  - Spouse.
KW  - Subjectivity.
KW  - Suffering.
KW  - Sympathy.
KW  - The Heir of Redclyffe.
KW  - The Wings of the Dove.
KW  - Theft.
KW  - Theory.
KW  - Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol).
KW  - Tuberculosis.
KW  - Victorian era.
KW  - Victorian literature.
KW  - Villette (novel).
KW  - Workhouse.
KW  - Writer.
KW  - Writing.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -