Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Cosmopolitan Communities -- CHAPTER 2 Henry James -- "THE HISTORY OF THE VOICE": COSMOPOLITAN'S AMERICA -- FEMINIZING THE NATION: WOMAN AS CULTURAL ICON IN LATE JAMES -- CHAPTER 3 Marcel Proust -- PROUST, BERNARD LAZARE, AND THE POLITICS OF PARIAHDOM -- THE COMMUNITY, THE PROPHET, AND THE PARIAH: RELATION IN A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU -- CHAPTER 4 Virginia Woolf -- "SPLINTER" AND "MOSAIC": TOWARDS THE POLITICS OF CONNECTION -- OF OCEANS AND OPPOSITION: THE ACTION OF THE WAVES -- CHAPTER 5 Gertrude Stein -- STEINIAN TOPOGRAPHIES: THE MAKING OF AMERICA -- WRITING THE "I" THAT IS "THEY": GERTRUDE STEIN' S COMMUNITY OF THE SUBJECT -- CHAPTER 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 COSMOPOLITAN COMMUNITIES -- 2 HENRY JAMES -- 3 MARCEL PROUST -- 4 VIRGINIA WOOLF -- 5 GERTRUDE STEIN -- 6 CONCLUSION -- Index.