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Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writing and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writing and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: The New Urban Atlantic
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This book argues that cosmopolitanism was a feature of early
American discourses of nation formation and eighteenth-century
colonialism. With the analysis of writings by Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Philip Mazzei, and
Olaudah Equiano, the book reassesses the terms in which we
understand cosmopolitanism, its relationship with local and
transatlantic environments, and the way these representative
writers from different segments of colonial society identified
themselves and America within the transatlantic context. The book
shows that the transnational and universalist appeal of the
cosmopolitan not only accompanies empire building and defines a
narrative that aligns the cosmopolitan perspective of global
understanding and cooperation with western political ideology. The
language of the cosmopolitan also forms the basis of a rhetoric
that resists imperial expansion and allows writers in a variety of
cultural, social, and political margins to find a voice to identify
themselves, America, and the transatlantic world they imagine.
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