The Powers of Distance : : Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment / / Amanda Anderson.
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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Anderson, Amanda, author. The Powers of Distance : Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment / Amanda Anderson. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 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. The Powers of Distance illuminates its historical object of study and provides a powerful example for its theoretical argument, showing that an ideal of critical detachment underlies the ironic modes of modernism and postmodernism as well as the tradition of Enlightenment thought and critical theory. Its broad understanding of detachment and cultivated distance, together with its focused historical analysis, will appeal to theorists and critics across the humanities, particularly those working in literary and cultural studies, feminism, and postcolonialism. Original in scope and thesis, this book constitutes a major contribution to literary history and contemporary theory. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691188065?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691188065.jpg |
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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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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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