Table of Contents:
  • Cosmopolitanism in the Americas : becoming worldly, becoming modern
  • Thresholds of cosmopolitanism : prefaces to modernity and other-worldly readings
  • Cosmopolitan topographies of Paris : citing Balzac
  • Cosmopolitan decadence : writing inversions
  • American cosmopolis : the world's Columbian Exposition and Chicago across the Americas
  • Literary cosmotopias : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Ariel and Cosmopolis
  • Conclusions.