The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment.

by Amanda Anderson (Author)

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  2001

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  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.