Microencapsulation Methods

Large-Scale Sympathy and Simultaneity in George Eliot’s Romola

“…Such "acts of distancing," Amanda Anderson suggests, "produce a more primary effect, which is psychological: the underdevelopment of the moral faculties, particularly the faculty of sympathy." 24 nevertheless, the target of George Eliot's criticism-the "many who theorize on those bodies with eloquence"-does not protect her against relying on the same kind of generalization that she critiques in others. 25 As Amanda Anderson goes on to argue, George Eliot's critique in "The natural history of the German Life" ultimately results in a conflicted position that forces her "to mediate between sympathetic immersion and detached analysis and judgment."…”

“…In Amanda Anderson's account, the cultivation of detachment-the aspiration to distance one's self from a given discourse in order to understand it-forms the basis of the Victorian notion of cosmopolitanism, or the "reflective distance from one's original or primary cultural affiliations, a broad understanding of other cultures and customs, and a belief in universal humanity." 31 Cast ashore after his boat was attacked by a Turkish slave ship, Tito is Romola's most cosmopolitan character. Tito says to Bardo during his interview early in the novel, "I have resided both at Constantinople and Thessalonica, and have traveled in various parts little visited by Western Christians since the triumph of the Turkish arms" (p. 59).…”