Enit Karafili Steiner is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the editor of Cosmopolitan Endeavours (2020), and author of Northanger Abbey/Persuasion: Readers’ Guide to Essential Criticism (2016) and Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process (2012). She has also edited Called to Civil Existence: Dialogues on Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2014) and Frances Brooke's The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (2013).

• Acknowledgements Introduction: What Does Cosmopolitanism Want?1. Like Rivers Increased and Refined: Oliver Goldsmith’s Citizens of the World2. Wollstonecraft’s Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Suffering3. Raising the Child-Friend of Abolitionism4. Cosmopolitan Calling and Censure in The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (1810)5. Air of the World and the 'Murky Night of the Empire' in The Last ManAfterword: Expansive yet Particularised MomentsBibliographyIndex

In Enit Steiner's wide-ranging book the literature of the long eighteenth century is reconsidered from a fresh perspective. From Goldsmith to Wollstonecraft to Mary Shelley, Abu Talib and abolitionist literature, Steiner asserts an enduring cosmopolitan spirit where others would previously see little more than a strong proclivity towards universalism. Her approach is anchored in a performative and situationist understanding of cosmopolitanism that eschews its interpretation as an immutable set of values or a reliable manual for world citizenship.