The Cosmopolitan Evolution: Travel, Travel Narratives, and the Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century European Consciousness

by Matthew Binney

Book Overview

Working from the concept of cosmopolitanism and incorporating textual evidence from philosophy, drama of the English Renaissance, seventeenth-century travel narratives, and eighteenth-century literature, The Cosmopolitan Evolution, explores the interactions between the European consciousness and the foreign. The book also chronicles the development of cosmopolitanism from a form of representative universalism, which seeks to enfold all humans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761834141
• ISBN13: 9780761834144
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"