Abstract
Talia Schaffer’s Communities of Care is an exceptionally ambitious volume that combines at least two distinct goals. As an exercise in Victorian literary and cultural history, it seeks to understand the workings and failures of care in the fiction of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James and Charlotte Yonge. As a broader ethical and political exploration, it is a fundamentally didactic project that draws on the lessons of Victorian fiction in order to teach us how to turn care into the modus operandi of not only literary criticism but academic life itself.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 98-100 |
Journal | Literature and History |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 31 May 2022 |
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Publication status | Published - May 2022 |