Communities of care : the social ethics of Victorian fiction /
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 Vic...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1j662g1 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- 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