Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century - Couverture souple

Steiner, Enit Karafili

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1399524968 ISBN 13 : 9781399524964

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Examines literary manifestations of eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism to reveal cosmopolitanism’s relevance for postcoloniality

• Discusses adaptations of Stoic and Cynic cosmopolitanism in long-eighteenth-century texts
• Reads related ideas of European, Muslim, and Confucian cosmopolitanism side by side
• Builds dialogue between the long eighteenth century and postcolonial studies
• Addresses cosmopolitanism as a literary style and hermeneutical tool
• Argues the relevance of literary cosmopolitanism for other disciplines: e.g., translation, Transatlantic slavery, decolonial, Earth, and medical studies

Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century traces expansions of Classical cosmopolitanism in long-eighteenth-century Britain to shows how acts of inclusion from cosmopolitan viewpoints sought to cope with British imperialism, war, social injustice, slavery, and technologies of self- and societal improvement, concerns that survive to this day. The Classical inheritance uncovered here yields more precise contouring of cosmopolitanism and of the eighteenth-century innovations that prefigure postcolonial debates. Additionally, considerations of style fill a lacuna in eighteenth-century literary studies, where cosmopolitanism remains a rather under-explored hermeneutical tool. Inviting readers to appreciate cosmopolitanism as a developing rather than as a static and completed philosophy, this study refutes an objection that circulated in the eighteenth century and is still present today, namely, cosmopolitanism’s disdain for local values.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Enit Karafili Steiner is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the editor of Cosmopolitan Endeavours (2020), and author of Northanger Abbey/Persuasion: Readers’ Guide to Essential Criticism (2016) and Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process (2012). She has also edited Called to Civil Existence: Dialogues on Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2014) and Frances Brooke's The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399524968
• ISBN 13: 9781399524964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible