Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

• Introduction: cosmopolitan realism; Part I. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition, Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism; 2. The sketch and the panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism; Part II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the Fin de Siècle and Beyond: 3. Realist details and romance plots: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanism; 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest England; 5. The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal sublime; Conclusion: 'a city visible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolis.

"Tanya Agathocleous provocatively investigates the mid-Victorian roots of our conflicted responses to urbanization and globalization....Effectively tracing the "long literary history of London-as-cosmopolis" from the 1850s through the 1920s, this book demonstrates its author's strengths as an archivist and her engagement with the growing body of scholarship on this topic." -Joseph McLaughlin, Assc Profc of English at Ohio University, Editor for the Ohio University Press series in Victorian Studies, and the author of Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot (2000).

Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

• Introduction: cosmopolitan realism; Part I. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition, Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism; 2. The sketch and the panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism; Part II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the Fin de Siècle and Beyond: 3. Realist details and romance plots: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanism; 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest England; 5. The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal sublime; Conclusion: 'a city visible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolis.

"Tanya Agathocleous provocatively investigates the mid-Victorian roots of our conflicted responses to urbanization and globalization....Effectively tracing the "long literary history of London-as-cosmopolis" from the 1850s through the 1920s, this book demonstrates its author's strengths as an archivist and her engagement with the growing body of scholarship on this topic." -Joseph McLaughlin, Assc Profc of English at Ohio University, Editor for the Ohio University Press series in Victorian Studies, and the author of Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot (2000).

Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

• Introduction: cosmopolitan realism; Part I. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition, Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism; 2. The sketch and the panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism; Part II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the Fin de Siècle and Beyond: 3. Realist details and romance plots: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanism; 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest England; 5. The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal sublime; Conclusion: 'a city visible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolis.

"Tanya Agathocleous provocatively investigates the mid-Victorian roots of our conflicted responses to urbanization and globalization....Effectively tracing the "long literary history of London-as-cosmopolis" from the 1850s through the 1920s, this book demonstrates its author's strengths as an archivist and her engagement with the growing body of scholarship on this topic." -Joseph McLaughlin, Assc Profc of English at Ohio University, Editor for the Ohio University Press series in Victorian Studies, and the author of Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot (2000).