Description: Reading transnational American literature from a cognitive perspective, this book argues that our emotional engagements with others--real and imagined--are crucially important for the development of cosmopolitan imaginations.
Brief description: Alexa Weik von Mossner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Her essays have appeared in journals such as the African American Review, English Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.