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, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Weltbürgertum > Motiv
Weltbürgertum
Literatur
Englisch
Distanz
Postmodernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Literature and society.
Irony in literature.
English literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Cosmopolitanism.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cosmopolitisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Ironie dans la litterature.
Internationalisme dans la litterature.
Psychologie differentielle dans la litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > Grande-Bretagne.
Postmodernisme (Litterature) > Grande-Bretagne.
Alienation (Psychologie sociale) dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Internationalism in literature.
Difference (Philosophy) in literature.
Cosmopolitanism > Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Postmodernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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