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Communities of Care - The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction (Hardcover)
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Communities of Care - The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction (Hardcover)
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What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian
novel 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. Communities of Care examines these groups in the novels
of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, 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.
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