Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.

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.