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The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment
Amanda Anderson
The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment
Amanda Anderson
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.
208 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 19, 2001 |
ISBN13 | 9780691074979 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 152 × 235 × 150 mm · 312 g |
Language | English |
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