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Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siecle - Citizens of Nowhere (Hardcover)
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Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siecle - Citizens of Nowhere (Hardcover)
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The fin de siecle witnessed an extensive and heated debate about
cosmopolitanism, which transformed readers' attitudes towards
national identity, foreign literatures, translation, and the idea
of world literature. Focussing on literature written in English,
Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siecle offers a
critical examination of cosmopolitanism as a distinctive feature of
the literary modernity of this important period of transition. No
longer conceived purely as an abstract philosophical ideal,
cosmopolitanism-or world citizenship-informed the actual, living
practices of authors and readers who sought new ways of relating
local and global identities in an increasingly interconnected
world. The book presents literary cosmopolitanism as a field of
debate and controversy. While some writers and readers embraced the
creative, imaginative, emotional, and political potentials of world
citizenship, hostile critics denounced it as a politically and
morally suspect ideal, and stressed instead the responsibilities of
literature towards the nation. In this age of empire and rising
nationalism, world citizenship came to enshrine a paradox: it
simultaneously connoted positions of privilege and marginality,
connectivity and non-belonging. Chapters on Oscar Wilde, Lafcadio
Hearn, George Egerton, the periodical press, and artificial
languages bring to light the variety of literary responses to the
idea of world citizenship that proliferated at the turn of the
twentieth century. The book interrogates cosmopolitanism as a
liberal ideology that celebrates human diversity and as a social
identity linked to worldliness; it investigates its effect on
gender, ethics, and the emotions. It presents the literature of the
fin de siecle as a dynamic space of exchange and mediation, and
argues that our own approach to literary studies should become less
national in focus.
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