-Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my way. Shaw's readings are critically informed and theoretically sophisticated, yet at the same time remarkably lucid and clear. This is a work of very fine, well-balanced, and - for a first book - astonishingly mature scholarship.- -- Prof Berthold Schoene, Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

-The first study to fully appreciate contemporary literature's engagement with cosmopolitanism. A persuasive and...