The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment

by Amanda Anderson

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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. 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691074976

ISBN13:9780691074979

Release Date:October 2001

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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