Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

Cyrus R. K. Patell is Associate Professor of English at New York University Abu Dhabi, USA. He is the author most recently of US Emergent Literatures: From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century.

Introduction 1. Crossing Boundaries of Culture and Thought 2. Religious Belief 3. Historical Fiction 4. Speculative Fiction 5. Animal Studies Conclusion: Why to Read and How