The Powers of Distance

The Powers of Distance
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0691074976
ISBN-13 : 9780691074979
Rating : 4/5 (979 Downloads)

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 212 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.


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