ESTHER WOHLGEMUT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her work has appeared in journals such as Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, and Romanticism on the Net.

• Acknowledgements Introduction A Cosmopolitan Nation? Kant, Burke and the Question of Borders 'A Great Federacy' of Nations: Internationalism and the Edinburgh Review  An Alternative Formulation: The Idea of National Literature in Staël and the Edinburgh Review  Porous Borders: Maria Edgeworth and the Question of National Identity  Pilgrim, Exile, Vagabond: Byron and the Citizen of the World Cosmopolitan Figures and Cosmopolitan Literary Forms Epilogue: Reactionary Cosmopolitanism Notes Bibliography Index