Literary cosmopolitanism in the age of the League of Nations: Vernon Lee, Daniel Halévy, and the Revue de Genève

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Abstract:: In 1921, the newly founded French-language periodical, La Revue de Genève, featured an exchange of letters between Daniel Halévy and Vernon Lee in which the two writers articulated contrasting visions of national identity and international literary relations. Reflecting on the traumatic experience of the First World War, Halévy called for literature and the role of the writer to be depoliticized. Lee, by contrast, put forward a politicized model of cosmopolitanism that challenged the renewed emphasis on national sovereignty in the post-war international order. Their exchange sheds light on the tense negotiation of literary cosmopolitanism that followed the Versailles settlement and the establishment of the League of Nations.

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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: HUMS
Sub department:: English Faculty
Oxford college:: Trinity College; Trinity College; Trinity College; Trinity College; TRINITY COLLEGE
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0001-7967-0768

Copyright holder:: Stefano Evangelista
Rights statement:: © The Author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Notes:: This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version will be available from a forthcoming edition of the Journal of European Studies.

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