Stefano Evangelista, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle, Citizens of Nowhere

We are habitually advised not to judge a book by its cover. Instead, we are to delve beneath the surface, search for the kernel truth which the writer has staked out for readers. Stefano Evangelista has produced a work of literary history which addresses a topic—literary cosmopolitanism—located in a specific time and place—English Fin de Siècle. The title sounds a discreetly dissonant note: literary cosmopolitanism is not self-evident. Writer and reader, in our modern and national literary cu

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