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Introduction: cosmopolitan realism; Part I. The Emergence ofCosmopolitan Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition,Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism; 2. The sketch and thepanorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism;Part II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the Fin de Siecle and Beyond: 3. Realistdetails and romance plots: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-sieclecosmopolitanism; 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist internationalism andrealist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest England; 5. The moment andthe end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal sublime; Conclusion: 'a cityvisible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolis.