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Amanda AndersonPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2001Availability
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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. 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- 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
- Internationalism in literature
- Irony in literature
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Contents
- 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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- 0691074968
- 0691074976
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