Caring Versus Caregiving: On Talia Schaffer’s “Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction”
A new book about caregiving in Victorian novels sheds valuable light on the crisis of healthcare today.
Rachael Scarborough King is associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres and editor of After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Aeon, Avidly, and the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal.
A new book about caregiving in Victorian novels sheds valuable light on the crisis of healthcare today.
Rachael Scarborough King on three books that consider the way forward for New Formalism.