The Cosmopolitan Novel Author:Berthold Schoene The novel is said to develop in time with the nation-state, but Berthold Schoene points instead to a new subgenre that is adept at imagining a global community. Schoene reads contemporary British writers?Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor, and David Mitchell? against established novelists, such as Arundhati Roy, James Kelman, an... more »d Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical concept, including "glocality," "glomicity," "tour du monde," "connectivity," and "compearance," altogether defining a new cosmopolitanism that responds to global socioeconomic formations.« less