Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691074976
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Powers of Distance by : Amanda Anderson
Download or read book The Powers of Distance written by Amanda Anderson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.