The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of DetachmentPrinceton University Press, 19 Ağu 2001 - 196 sayfa 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-century British culture, including methods of objectivity in social science, practices of omniscience in artistic realism, and the complex forms of affiliation in Victorian cosmopolitanism. Anderson demonstrates that many writers--including George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Charlotte Brontë, Matthew Arnold, and Oscar Wilde--thoughtfully address the challenging moral questions that attend stances of detachment. In so doing, she offers a revisionist account of Victorian culture and a tempered defense of detachment as an ongoing practice and aspiration. |
İçindekiler
Acknowledgments | |
Forms of Detachment | 3 |
Gender Modernity and Detachment Domestic Ideals and the Case of Charlotte Brontes Villette | 34 |
Cosmopolitanism in Different Voices Charles Dickenss Little Dorrit and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion | 63 |
Disinterestedness as a Vocation Revisiting Matthew Arnold | 91 |
The Cultivation of Partiality George Eliot and the Jewish Question | 119 |
Manners Before Morals Oscar Wilde and Epigrammatic Detachment | 147 |
The Character of Theory | 177 |
Bibliography | 181 |
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