Communities of Care : : The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction / / Talia Schaffer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Schaffer, Talia,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• প্রকাশনার বছর: 2021
• ভাষা: English
• দৈহিক বর্ননা: 1 online resource (296 p.)

What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novelIn 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...

Table of 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