Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writing and Culture (eBook)
IX, 205 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-62298-9 (ISBN)
This book argues that cosmopolitanism was a feature of early American discourses of nation formation and eighteenth-century colonialism. With the analysis of writings by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Philip Mazzei, and Olaudah Equiano, the book reassesses the terms in which we understand cosmopolitanism, its relationship with local and transatlantic environments, and the way these representative writers from different segments of colonial society identified themselves and America within the transatlantic context. The book shows that the transnational and universalist appeal of the cosmopolitan not only accompanies empire building and defines a narrative that aligns the cosmopolitan perspective of global understanding and cooperation with western political ideology. The language of the cosmopolitan also forms the basis of a rhetoric that resists imperial expansion and allows writers in a variety of cultural, social, and political margins to find a voice to identify themselves, America, and the transatlantic world they imagine.
Chiara Cillerai is Associate Professor at the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John's University, NY where she teaches composition and literature courses. She has published on such topics as the American Enlightenment and the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Thomas Jefferson, Philip Mazzei, and Toni Morrison. She is currently working on an edited collection of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson's writings.
Chiara Cillerai is Associate Professor at the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University, NY where she teaches composition and literature courses. She has published on such topics as the American Enlightenment and the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Thomas Jefferson, Philip Mazzei, and Toni Morrison. She is currently working on an edited collection of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson’s writings.
1 Introduction.- 2 “'Forming the Virtuous and good Men of all Nations into a regular Body’: Benjamin Franklin’s Cosmopolitan Idea of the American Self”.- 3 “The Eloquence of Nature in Notes on the State of Virginia”.- 4 “Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson’s Cosmopolis of Letters”.- 5 “‘A continual and almost exclusive correspondence’: Philip Mazzei’s Transatlantic Citizenship”.- 6 “Interesting Narratives and Narratives of Interest”.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.10.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | The New Urban Atlantic | The New Urban Atlantic |
Zusatzinfo | IX, 205 p. 1 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Schlagworte | Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century America • Eighteenth-century colonialism • Eighteenth-century Empire Building • Eighteenth-century nation building and national identity • Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson • Olaudah Equiano • Philip Mazzei • Transatlantic Communication in Eighteenth-Century America |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-62298-6 / 3319622986 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-62298-9 / 9783319622989 |
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