ABSTRACT

This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Cosmopolitanism in Its Time and Place

chapter |30 pages

“The Metropol and the Mayster-Toun”

Cosmopolitanism and Late Medieval Literature

chapter |25 pages

The Cartographic Imagination

Balzac in Paris

chapter |25 pages

Theater and Cosmopolitanism

New Stories, Old Stages