Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.

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ESTHER WOHLGEMUT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her work has appeared in journals such as Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, and Romanticism on the Net.

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Acknowledgements Introduction A Cosmopolitan Nation? Kant, Burke and the Question of Borders 'A Great Federacy' of Nations: Internationalism and the Edinburgh Review An Alternative Formulation: The Idea of National Literature in Staël and the Edinburgh Review Porous Borders: Maria Edgeworth and the Question of National Identity Pilgrim, Exile, Vagabond: Byron and the Citizen of the World Cosmopolitan Figures and Cosmopolitan Literary Forms Epilogue: Reactionary Cosmopolitanism Notes Bibliography Index