The Cosmopolitan Evolution

Matthew W. Binney, a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, received his Ph.D. in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Auburn University. He has contributed to a number of scholarly journals and is a member of the American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1. The Classical and Medieval Mind: The Predominance of Universalism without Complexity Chapter 4 Excursus I. Systems Theory, Consciousness, and Virtue Chapter 5 Chapter 2. The Renaissance Consciousness: The Development of Internal Complexity Through Boundaries and Self-Reference Chapter 6 Chapter 3. English Renaissance Drama and Self-Reference Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives: Universalism and the Travel Consciousness Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives: National Interests and Self-Reflection Chapter 9 Excursus II. Oroonoko, Self-Reference, and the Internalization of the Foreign Chapter 10 Chapter 6. The Eighteenth-Century Consciousness and the Ascendancy of Cosmopolitan Particularism: Self-Regulation and Self-Governance Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Eighteenth-Century Consciousness and Complex Universalism: Daniel Defoe, Self-Governance, and Sympathy Chapter 12 Conclusion Chapter 13 Notes Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index