Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination 1
5. Chapter 1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights 29
6. Chapter 2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck 58
7. Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith 89
8. Chapter 4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright 120
9. Chapter 5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles 151
10. Conclusion. (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings? 181
11. Notes 187
12. Bibliography 209
13. Index 227