The Cosmopolitan Novel

Berthold Schoene

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Paper, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4003-4
$34.00

April, 2010
Cloth, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3815-4
Edinburgh University Press
$105.00

The novel is said to develop in time with the nation-state, but Berthold Schoene points instead to a new subgenre that is adept at imagining a global community. Schoene reads contemporary British writers—Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor, and David Mitchell— against established novelists, such as Arundhati Roy, James Kelman, and Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical concept, including "glocality," "glomicity," "tour du monde," "connectivity," and "compearance," altogether defining a new cosmopolitanism that responds to global socioeconomic formations.

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Berthold Schoene is professor of English and director of the English Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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