Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Transnational circulation in the age of realism and progressivism
  • From cosmopolitanism to world-salvation: the transnational imaginary and the idea of the progressive state
  • Local color, world literature, and the transnational turn in William Dean Howells's fiction and criticism
  • Improper wealth getting: Henry James, the rise of finance capitalism, and the emerging global cultural economy
  • Migration systems and literary production: the global routes of Abraham Cahan and Knut Hamsun
  • Freedom amongst aliens: Jack London, Lafcadio Hearn, and the alternative modernity of Japan
  • Coda: Modernism, multiculturalism, and the legacy of the mediating nation.