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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What Does Cosmopolitanism Want?
1. Like Rivers Increased and Refined: Oliver Goldsmith's Citizens of the World
2. Wollstonecraft's Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Suffering
3. Raising the Child-Friend of Abolitionism
4. Cosmopolitan Calling and Censure in The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (1810)
5. Air of the World and the 'Murky Night of the Empire' in The Last Man
Afterword: Expansive yet Particularised Moments
Bibliography
Index
