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The powers of distance : cosmopolitanism and the cultivation of detachment, Amanda Anderson
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780691188065
- Label
- The powers of distance : cosmopolitanism and the cultivation of detachment
- Title
- The powers of distance
- Title remainder
- cosmopolitanism and the cultivation of detachment
- Statement of responsibility
- Amanda Anderson
- Subject
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- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature
- Cosmopolitanism
- Cosmopolitanism -- Great Britain
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Distanz
- Electronic books
- Englisch
- Englisch
- English literature
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- History
- Internationalisme dans la littérature
- Ironie dans la littérature
- Irony in literature
- Irony in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literatur
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle | Histoire et critique
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne | Histoire | 19e siècle
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Psychologie différentielle dans la littérature
- 1800-1899
- Weltbürgertum
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Anderson, Amanda
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- Literature and society
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature)
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Cosmopolitanism
- Irony in literature
- Littérature anglaise
- Littérature et société
- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature
- Postmodernisme (Littérature)
- Modernisme (Littérature)
- Psychologie différentielle dans la littérature
- Internationalisme dans la littérature
- Ironie dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
- Cosmopolitanism
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- English literature
- Irony in literature
- Literature and society
- Modernism (Literature)
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Great Britain
- Distanz
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Weltbürgertum
- Weltbürgertum
- Englisch
- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature
- Internationalisme dans la littérature
- Ironie dans la littérature
- Littérature anglaise
- Littérature et société
- Modernisme (Littérature)
- Postmodernisme (Littérature)
- Psychologie différentielle dans la littérature
- Label
- The powers of distance : cosmopolitanism and the cultivation of detachment, Amanda Anderson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index
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- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- on1044749264
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691188065
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv397595
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1044749264
- Label
- The powers of distance : cosmopolitanism and the cultivation of detachment, Amanda Anderson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- on1044749264
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691188065
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv397595
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1044749264
Subject
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature
- Cosmopolitanism
- Cosmopolitanism -- Great Britain
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Distanz
- Electronic books
- Englisch
- Englisch
- English literature
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- History
- Internationalisme dans la littérature
- Ironie dans la littérature
- Irony in literature
- Irony in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literatur
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle | Histoire et critique
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne | Histoire | 19e siècle
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Psychologie différentielle dans la littérature
- 1800-1899
- Weltbürgertum
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
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