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"Johansen shows that the conventional wisdom equating cosmopolitanism with metropolitan life occludes other less urban locales where worldliness thrives. This intervention is smart, timely, and most exciting when it focuses on the weird species called the regional city and that ostensibly less cosmopolitan realm, the country. By reimagining the geography of cosmopolitanism, Johansen gives the concept a much needed reboot." - John Marx, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA
"Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature offers a cogent defense of the value of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary moment. This is the book to read if you want to understand how global feeling is being recast by Anglophone writers today as an extension rather than a refutation of local habits of everyday life. Johansen takes us into the streets of the metropole, the networks of the regional city, and the byways of rural spaces to show us the multiple territories and tactics of cosmopolitan experience. This is an important and compelling addition both to the long critical history of literary cosmopolitanism and to our increasing understanding of the geopolitics of place in a globalizing world." - Jessica Berman, Professor of English, The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), US
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Book Title: Cosmopolitanism and Place
Book Subtitle: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
Authors: Emily Johansen
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402677
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Emily Johansen 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40266-0Published: 01 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48676-2Published: 01 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40267-7Published: 01 May 2014
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 196
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Cultural Studies