Romantic cosmopolitanism
By: Esther Wohlgemut.
Series: Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230232044
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Political and social views; Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century; Nationalism in literature; Cosmopolitanism in literature
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgementsIntroductionA Cosmopolitan Nation? Kant, Burke and the Question of BordersA Great Federacy of Nations: Internationalism and the Edinburgh Review An Alternative Formulation: The Idea of National Literature in Stal and the Edinburgh Review Porous Borders: Maria Edgeworth and the Question of National Identity Pilgrim, Exile, Vagabond: Byron and the Citizen of the WorldCosmopolitan Figures and Cosmopolitan Literary FormsEpilogue: Reactionary Cosmopolitanism NotesBibliographyIndex.