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- Title
APPROPRIATIONS OF THE COSMOPOLITAN IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE.
- Authors
KJØRHOLT, INGVILD HAGEN
- Abstract
In the middle of the 18th century in Europe, 'cosmopolitan' or 'citizen of the world' suddenly appears on the title pages of several literary works. What characterizes the cosmopolitan? And why does the term emerge at this particular moment in literary history? This article sets out to reveal the history of how 'cosmopolitan' is appropriated in French by tracing the origins and semantic transformations of the original Greek term kosmopolites (French cosmopolite or cosmopolitain) from its first rare appearances in late sixteenth-century French literature until the beginning of the 19th century, by which time the term had become quite common. The article identifies two distinct periods in this history - the cosmopolitan as author and the cosmopolitan as fictional character - and argues that there is a particular affinity between the French appropriation of the concept 'cosmopolitan' and the emerging field of literature.
- Subjects
FRENCH literature; COSMOPOLITANISM in literature; PUBLIC spending; MODERN literature; CONCEPTUAL history
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2015, Vol 51, Issue 3, p287
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/cqv047