CONTENTS
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
Cosmopolitanism in the Americas:
Becoming Worldly, Becoming Modern 1
Chapter One
Thresholds of Cosmopolitanism:
Prefaces to Modernity and Other-Worldly Readings 26
Chapter Two
Cosmopolitan Topographies ofParis: Citing Balzac 43
Chapter Three
Cosmopolitan Decadence: Writing Inversions 60
Chapter Four
American Cosmopolis: The World’s Columbian Exposition
and Chicago across the Americas 85
Chapter Five
Literary Cosmotopias: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in
Ariel and Cosmópolis 104
Conclusions
(and Querying the “Other” Cosmopolitanism) 131
Works Cited 139
Index 147