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
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.