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.

This is an expansive project, but it is grounded in rich detail. The engagement with archives, correspondence, book design, and reader's reports from the John Lane collection at the Harry Ransom Center, allows for the startling, disappointing, and inspiring elements of late-Victorian cosmopolitan practice to emerge with clarity. It is in working with the grains and textures of this history that we can see what the cosmopolitan ethos actually managed to do and exactly how and why it fell short of its aspirations.

• Introduction: The Small World of the Fin de Siècle 1: Oscar Wilde's World Literature 2: Lafcadio Hearn and Global Aestheticism 3: George Egerton's Scandinavian Breakthrough 4: Controversies in the Periodical Press: Cosmopolitan and Cosmopolis 5: Those who hoped: Literary Cosmopolitanism and Artificial Languages Conclusion: Citizens of Nowhere: One Last Ghost

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.

This is an expansive project, but it is grounded in rich detail. The engagement with archives, correspondence, book design, and reader's reports from the John Lane collection at the Harry Ransom Center, allows for the startling, disappointing, and inspiring elements of late-Victorian cosmopolitan practice to emerge with clarity. It is in working with the grains and textures of this history that we can see what the cosmopolitan ethos actually managed to do and exactly how and why it fell short of its aspirations.

• Introduction: The Small World of the Fin de Siècle 1: Oscar Wilde's World Literature 2: Lafcadio Hearn and Global Aestheticism 3: George Egerton's Scandinavian Breakthrough 4: Controversies in the Periodical Press: Cosmopolitan and Cosmopolis 5: Those who hoped: Literary Cosmopolitanism and Artificial Languages Conclusion: Citizens of Nowhere: One Last Ghost