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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Tác giả chính: Schaffer, Talia, 1968- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [2021]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1j662g1
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  • 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