The Powers of Distance - Amanda Anderson

The Powers of Distance

Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2001
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-07496-2 (ISBN)
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Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, this text examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought.
Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, this work 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 Bront , 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 text illuminates its historical object of study and provides an 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 understanding of detachment and cultivated distance, together with its hi

Amanda Anderson is Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University and the author of Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture.

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Forms of Detachment 3 Chapter One: Gender, Modernity, and Detachment Domestic Ideas and the Case of Charlotte Bronte's Villette 34 Chapter Two: Cosmopolitanism in Different Voices Charles Dicken's Little Dorrit and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion 63 Chapter Three: Disinterestedness as a Vocation Revisisting Matthew Arnold 91 Chapter Four: The Cultivation of Partiality George Eliot and the Jewish Question 119 Chapter Five: "Manners Before Morals" Oscar Wilde and Epigrammatic Detachment 147 Conclusion: The Character of Theory 177 Bibliography 181 Index 193

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.8.2001
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 235 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-691-07496-8 / 0691074968
ISBN-13 978-0-691-07496-2 / 9780691074962
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