Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with
forceful theoretical argument, "The Powers of Distance" examines
the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment
associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. Amanda Anderson
explores a range of practices in nineteenth-century British
culture, including methods of objectivity in social science,
practices of omniscience in artistic realism, and the complex forms
of affiliation in Victorian cosmopolitanism. Anderson demonstrates
that many writers--including George Eliot, John Stuart Mill,
Charlotte Bronte, Matthew Arnold, and Oscar Wilde--thoughtfully
address the challenging moral questions that attend stances of
detachment. In so doing, she offers a revisionist account of
Victorian culture and a tempered defense of detachment as an
ongoing practice and aspiration.
"The Powers of Distance" illuminates its historical object of
study and provides a powerful example for its theoretical argument,
showing that an ideal of critical detachment underlies the ironic
modes of modernism and postmodernism as well as the tradition of
Enlightenment thought and critical theory. Its broad understanding
of detachment and cultivated distance, together with its focused
historical analysis, will appeal to theorists and critics across
the humanities, particularly those working in literary and cultural
studies, feminism, and postcolonialism. Original in scope and
thesis, this book constitutes a major contribution to literary
history and contemporary theory."
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