Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146) and index.
English.
Cosmopolitanism in the Americas : becoming worldly, becoming modern -- Thresholds of cosmopolitanism : prefaces to modernity and other-worldly readings -- Cosmopolitan topographies of Paris : citing Balzac -- Cosmopolitan decadence : writing inversions -- American cosmopolis : the world's Columbian Exposition and Chicago across the Americas -- Literary cosmotopias : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Ariel and Cosmopolis -- Conclusions