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In Enit Steiner's wide-ranging book the literature of the long eighteenth century is reconsidered from a fresh perspective. From Goldsmith to Wollstonecraft to Mary Shelley, Abu Talib and abolitionist literature, Steiner asserts an enduring cosmopolitan spirit where others would previously see little more than a strong proclivity towards universalism. Her approach is anchored in a performative and situationist understanding of cosmopolitanism that eschews its interpretation as an immutable set of values or a reliable manual for world citizenship.--Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London

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Enit Karafili Steiner is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the editor of Cosmopolitan Endeavours (2020), and author of Northanger Abbey/Persuasion: Readers' Guide to Essential Criticism (2016) and Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process (2012). She has also edited Called to Civil Existence: Dialogues on Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2014) and Frances Brooke's The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (2013).

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