The Powers of Distance : Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment /

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Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, The Powers of Distance examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. Amanda Anderson explores a range of practices in nineteenth-c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Anderson, Amanda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. Forms of Detachment
  • CHAPTER ONE. Gender, Modernity, and Detachment
  • CHAPTER TWO. Cosmopolitanism in Different Voices
  • CHAPTER THREE. Disinterestedness as a Vocation
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Cultivation of Partiality
  • CHAPTER FIVE. "Manners Before Morals"
  • CONCLUSION. The Character of Theory
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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