The Powers of Distance - Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with theoretical argument, this title examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. It explores a range of practices in nineteenth-century British culture, including methods of objectivity in social science.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Amanda Anderson, Anderson Amanda
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 19.08.2001
• EAN: 9780691074979
• ISBN: 978-0-691-07497-9
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Poids: 346 g
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900