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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Amanda, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Temas:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Cosmopolitanism > Great Britain.
Irony in literature.
Difference (Philosophy) in literature.
Internationalism in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature.
Postmodernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
Psychologie différentielle dans la littérature.
Internationalisme dans la littérature.
Ironie dans la littérature.
Cosmopolitisme > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Internationalism in literature
Difference (Philosophy) in literature
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Cosmopolitanism
Difference (Psychology) in literature
English literature
Irony in literature
Literature and society
Modernism (Literature)
Postmodernism (Literature)
Distanz
Englisch
Literatur
Weltbürgertum
Weltbürgertum > Motiv
Great Britain
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender, modernity, and detachment: domestic ideals and the case of Charlotte Brontë's Villette
  • Cosmopolitanism in different voices: Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and the hermeneutics of suspicion
  • Disinterestedness as a vocation: revisiting Matthew Arnold
  • The cultivation of partiality: George Eliot and the Jewish question
  • "Manners before morals": Oscar Wilde and epigrammatic detachment.

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