Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation

Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Paper, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13751-5
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June, 2006
Cloth, 248 pages,
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Acknowledgments

Introduction. Critical Cosmopolitanism and Modernist Narrative

Part 1. Cosmopolitan Modernism

1. Conrad’s Naturalness

2. Joyce’s Triviality

3. Woolf’s Evasion

Part 2. Modernist Cosmopolitanism

4. Ishiguro’s Treason

5. Rushdie’s Mix-Up

6. Sebald’s Vertigo

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Rebecca L. Walkowitz is associate professor of English and director of the seminar on modernism and globalization at Rutgers University. She is the editor or coeditor of several anthologies, including Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization; Bad Modernisms; and The Turn to Ethics.

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