Cosmopolitanism in the Americas

Title:

Author:

Fojas, Camilla, 1971-

Personal Author:

Fojas, Camilla, 1971-

Publication Information:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

xi, 150 p.

Series:

Comparative cultural studies

Comparative cultural studies.

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.

Subject Term:

Cosmopolitanism -- America -- History -- 19th century.

Literary movements -- America -- History -- 19th century.

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

Latin American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

City and town life in literature.

Pan-Americanism -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

America -- Civilization -- 19th century.

America -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

Latin America -- Civilization -- European influences.

America -- Politics and government -- 19th century.