The Powers of Distance
Download or Read eBook The Powers of Distance PDF 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.
| Author | : Amanda Anderson |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2001-08-19 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0691074976 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780691074979 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Powers of Distance by : Amanda Anderson
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.
