Download or read book The Powers of Distance 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. 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.