{"product_id":"the-powers-of-distance-cosmopolitanism-and-the-cultivation-of-detachment-9780691074979","title":"The Powers of Distance  Cosmopolitanism and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Powers of Distance ... consistently delivers the double payoff of enriched views on both Victorian texts and contemporary debates.\"--Victorian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction: Forms of Detachment 3  Chapter One: Gender, Modernity, and Detachment Domestic Ideas and the Case of Charlotte Bronte's Villette 34  Chapter Two: Cosmopolitanism in Different Voices Charles Dicken's Little Dorrit and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion 63  Chapter Three: Disinterestedness as a Vocation Revisisting Matthew Arnold 91  Chapter Four: The Cultivation of Partiality George Eliot and the Jewish Question 119  Chapter Five: \"Manners Before Morals\" Oscar Wilde and Epigrammatic Detachment 147  Conclusion: The Character of Theory 177  Bibliography 181  Index 193","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359102763351,"sku":"9780691074979","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691074979.jpg?v=1754123597","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-powers-of-distance-cosmopolitanism-and-the-cultivation-of-detachment-9780691074979","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}