Romantic Cosmopolitanism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 1-9

3. A Cosmopolitan Nation?: Kant, Burke and the Question of Borders

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 10-33

4. ‘A Great Federacy’ of Nations: Internationalism and the Edinburgh Review

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 34-53

5. An Alternative Formulation: The Idea of National Literature in Staël and the Edinburgh Review

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 54-70

6. Porous Borders: Maria Edgeworth and the Question of National Identity

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 71-94

7. Pilgrim, Exile, Vagabond: Byron and the Citizen of the World

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 95-118

8. Cosmopolitan Figures and Cosmopolitan Literary Forms

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 119-142

9. Epilogue: Reactionary Cosmopolitanism

   • Esther Wohlgemut

   Pages 143-154

10. Back Matter

    Pages 155-203

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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.

• English literature
• language
• national identity
• nationalism
• Romanticism
• British and Irish Literature

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.

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