Talia Schaffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1648380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Talia Schaffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Talia |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaffer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFFER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8168-5117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time for Sex
Kathy Psomiades’s Primitive Marriage argues that Victorian thinkers used consent as the turning point of history, changing our reading of the marriage plot
Care Communities versus Human Infrastructure
Victorian assumptions about care infrastructure differed profoundly from our own. Accustomed to local care communities, Victorian writers like Charles Dickens and Samuel Richard Bosanquet resisted the advent of standardized, centralized, institutional care for the poor and sick. While they acknowledged the need for widespread help, they fought to provide care through personal charity based on intimate knowledge, not governmental edict. Comparing …
Relational Reading
Two recently published books ask the same question: How might we read textual representations of Victorian women by focusing on their relationality, not their separate individuality? Ronjaunee Chatterjee's Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Carolyn Dever's Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field both stress that multiple genres of Victorian writing depend upon the intimate play of…
Care
This keyword introduces readers to the theory of ethics of care, arguing that it is both a historically appropriate metric for Victorian studies and a theoretical form grounded in the experience of marginalized subjects. Moreover, care is a way of thinking that encourages us to interrogate our own scholarship
Gaskell, Ghosts, and the Common Good
How can tenure-track allies to adjunct workers contribute in our new era of anti-tenure attacks and surging labor activism? Two of the founders of Tenure for the Common Good find guidance in Elizabeth Gaskell's representations of class relations. Gaskell reveals the pervasive entrapment of exploitative systems and suggests ways that privileged participants can serve as intermediaries, amplifying the voices of those who need to be heard. Drawing o…
The Passionate Fallacy
Daniel Wright's new book, Bad Logic, is a meticulous, patient, lucid, and thoughtful account of the difficulties Victorian authors get themselves into when they try to describe desire. Wright buttresses his claims by delving into logical formations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Nagel, Bertrand Russell, G. W. F. Hegel, and Stanley Cavell, as well as a host of nineteenth-century mathematicians and logicians, and contemporary lite…
Communities of Care
Communities of Care
This book explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, the book 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 com…
The double-edged sword
Care Communities
The feminist philosophy of "ethics of care" has been important for disability studies inasmuch as it helps us see caregiving as widespread and admirable, rather than as a failure of autonomy. Care ethicists usually imagine care as either an institutional situation or an intimate dyad. However, in "Critical Care," I add a third case in a midrange scale: the care community. The care community is a voluntary social formation, composed of friends, fa…
Victorian Feminist Criticism
It is fitting that this article emerged from a conference in which the orderly progression of speakers was continually modified by exchanges within the conference space, for these two ways of organizing information form the subject of this article. When we aim to recover Victorian women writers, we often imagine a particular case in a timeline, selecting and extracting in a tacit model of linear orderliness. This is particularly significant in wh…
Canon
to discuss any text that intrigues us. How did such a radical change occur
Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman
Portable Property
I am very fond of Wemmick, but in this case I have to concede that he has done John Plotz a disservice. By delivering his immortal paean to ‘portable property’, Wemmick gave Plotz an irresistiable title phrase that may lead readers to expect a very different kind of book. This brilliant, stirring, exciting new piece of criticism should really have had a title like ‘invested identity’. It is a bold reconsideration of how Victorian writers conceptu…
Women and Domestic Culture
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Taming the Tropics
It is hard to read Charlotte Yonge critically, but it is impossible to read her uncritically. Her novels are curiously addictive yet distinguished by a problematically pious didacticism. Yonge seems to demand that we embrace her dogma, spurring many modern readers to reject the whole Yongian corpus. Another way of posing the problem is to ask just how we can read a Victorian novelist whose greatest enthusiasm was for the spread of the Christian c…
Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922
Fashioning Aestheticism by Aestheticizing Fashion
“Strange, that a pair of silk stockings should so upset a nation.” — Oscar Wilde, quoted in Richard Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde T ODAY, WE TEND TO ENVISION the male Aesthete as a lanky, long-haired swain outfitted in velveteen pantaloons and clutching an outsize sunflower, an image straight from George du Maurier’s Punch cartoons or Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. Serious scholars of Aestheticism often prefer to resist this parodic image, insisting on…
Fashioning Aestheticism by Aestheticizing Fashion
“Strange, that a pair of silk stockings should so upset a nation.” — Oscar Wilde, quoted in Richard Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde T ODAY, WE TEND TO ENVISION the male Aesthete as a lanky, long-haired swain outfitted in velveteen pantaloons and clutching an outsize sunflower, an image straight from George du Maurier’s Punch cartoons or Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. Serious scholars of Aestheticism often prefer to resist this parodic image, insisting on…
Care Communities
The feminist philosophy of "ethics of care" has been important for disability studies inasmuch as it helps us see caregiving as widespread and admirable, rather than as a failure of autonomy. Care ethicists usually imagine care as either an institutional situation or an intimate dyad. However, in "Critical Care," I add a third case in a midrange scale: the care community. The care community is a voluntary social formation, composed of friends, fa…
Portable Property
I am very fond of Wemmick, but in this case I have to concede that he has done John Plotz a disservice. By delivering his immortal paean to ‘portable property’, Wemmick gave Plotz an irresistiable title phrase that may lead readers to expect a very different kind of book. This brilliant, stirring, exciting new piece of criticism should really have had a title like ‘invested identity’. It is a bold reconsideration of how Victorian writers conceptu…
Fashioning Aestheticism by Aestheticizing Fashion
“Strange, that a pair of silk stockings should so upset a nation.” — Oscar Wilde, quoted in Richard Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde T ODAY, WE TEND TO ENVISION the male Aesthete as a lanky, long-haired swain outfitted in velveteen pantaloons and clutching an outsize sunflower, an image straight from George du Maurier’s Punch cartoons or Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. Serious scholars of Aestheticism often prefer to resist this parodic image, insisting on…
Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922
Taming the Tropics
It is hard to read Charlotte Yonge critically, but it is impossible to read her uncritically. Her novels are curiously addictive yet distinguished by a problematically pious didacticism. Yonge seems to demand that we embrace her dogma, spurring many modern readers to reject the whole Yongian corpus. Another way of posing the problem is to ask just how we can read a Victorian novelist whose greatest enthusiasm was for the spread of the Christian c…
Women and Domestic Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Portable Property
I am very fond of Wemmick, but in this case I have to concede that he has done John Plotz a disservice. By delivering his immortal paean to ‘portable property’, Wemmick gave Plotz an irresistiable title phrase that may lead readers to expect a very different kind of book. This brilliant, stirring, exciting new piece of criticism should really have had a title like ‘invested identity’. It is a bold reconsideration of how Victorian writers conceptu…
Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman
Victorian Feminist Criticism
It is fitting that this article emerged from a conference in which the orderly progression of speakers was continually modified by exchanges within the conference space, for these two ways of organizing information form the subject of this article. When we aim to recover Victorian women writers, we often imagine a particular case in a timeline, selecting and extracting in a tacit model of linear orderliness. This is particularly significant in wh…
Canon
to discuss any text that intrigues us. How did such a radical change occur
Care Communities
The feminist philosophy of "ethics of care" has been important for disability studies inasmuch as it helps us see caregiving as widespread and admirable, rather than as a failure of autonomy. Care ethicists usually imagine care as either an institutional situation or an intimate dyad. However, in "Critical Care," I add a third case in a midrange scale: the care community. The care community is a voluntary social formation, composed of friends, fa…
Communities of Care
Communities of Care
This book explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, the book 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 com…
The double-edged sword
The Passionate Fallacy
Daniel Wright's new book, Bad Logic, is a meticulous, patient, lucid, and thoughtful account of the difficulties Victorian authors get themselves into when they try to describe desire. Wright buttresses his claims by delving into logical formations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Nagel, Bertrand Russell, G. W. F. Hegel, and Stanley Cavell, as well as a host of nineteenth-century mathematicians and logicians, and contemporary lite…
Relational Reading
Two recently published books ask the same question: How might we read textual representations of Victorian women by focusing on their relationality, not their separate individuality? Ronjaunee Chatterjee's Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Carolyn Dever's Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field both stress that multiple genres of Victorian writing depend upon the intimate play of…
Care
This keyword introduces readers to the theory of ethics of care, arguing that it is both a historically appropriate metric for Victorian studies and a theoretical form grounded in the experience of marginalized subjects. Moreover, care is a way of thinking that encourages us to interrogate our own scholarship
Gaskell, Ghosts, and the Common Good
How can tenure-track allies to adjunct workers contribute in our new era of anti-tenure attacks and surging labor activism? Two of the founders of Tenure for the Common Good find guidance in Elizabeth Gaskell's representations of class relations. Gaskell reveals the pervasive entrapment of exploitative systems and suggests ways that privileged participants can serve as intermediaries, amplifying the voices of those who need to be heard. Drawing o…
Care Communities versus Human Infrastructure
Victorian assumptions about care infrastructure differed profoundly from our own. Accustomed to local care communities, Victorian writers like Charles Dickens and Samuel Richard Bosanquet resisted the advent of standardized, centralized, institutional care for the poor and sick. While they acknowledged the need for widespread help, they fought to provide care through personal charity based on intimate knowledge, not governmental edict. Comparing …
Time for Sex
Kathy Psomiades’s Primitive Marriage argues that Victorian thinkers used consent as the turning point of history, changing our reading of the marriage plot
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