Romantic Cosmopolitanism

Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction A Cosmopolitan Nation? Kant, Burke and the Question of Borders 'A Great Federacy' of Nations: Internationalism and the Edinburgh Review An Alternative Formulation: The Idea of National Literature in Staël and the Edinburgh Review Porous Borders: Maria Edgeworth and the Question of National Identity Pilgrim, Exile, Vagabond: Byron and the Citizen of the World Cosmopolitan Figures and Cosmopolitan Literary Forms Epilogue: Reactionary Cosmopolitanism Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

ESTHER WOHLGEMUT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her work has appeared in journals such as Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, and Romanticism on the Net.

Summary

Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.

Product details

• Authors: E Wohlgemut, E. Wohlgemut
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349312474
• ISBN: 978-1-349-31247-4
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 13 mm x 218 mm
• Weight: 273 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 203 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism
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