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Evangelista unravels the conflicting associations of the term cosmopolitan with polish and vagabondage, worldliness and exile - and isolates the fin de siecle as a period in which the concept of cosmopolitanism came under increasing pressure from writers * Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement *

At a time when the humanities are coming under renewed pressure to explain their real-world relevance, this book does vital work in showing how engaging with our cultural past continues to bear fruit in understanding the knotted tributaries that construct our precarious presents. * Giles Whiteley, Stockholm University, Journal of Victorian Culture * The hope for future peace and mutual understanding expressed in the very term Esperanto is noble and worth striving for; in spite of its fin de siecle focus, Evangelistas stimulating book has a topicality which it is impossible to overlook. * Lene Ostermark-Johansen, University of Copenhagen, Modern Philology * All-embracing book * Lene Ostermark-Johansen, University of Copenhagen * Evangelista unravels the conflicting associations of the term cosmopolitan with polish and vagabondage, worldliness and exile - and isolates the fin de siecle as a period in which the concept of cosmopolitanism came under increasing pressure from writers * Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement *

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Stefano Evangelista is an Associate Professor of English and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He works on nineteenth-century English and comparative literature and is especially interested in Aestheticism and Decadence, the reception of the classics, gender, and the relationship between literary and visual cultures.

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