Titlebook: Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writing and Culture; Chiara Cillerai Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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,Caught in the Webs of Empire: Benjamin Franklin’s Cosmopolitan Ideas for an American Self,with an analysis of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiographical narrative in the context of its origins in the texts that Franklin composed early in his life, and in the context of their use in his memoir. The chapter shows how Franklin’s organization and choice of materials gives us an insight into the ex

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,Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson’s Cosmopolis of Letters,sson’s manuscript commonplace books. Cillerai shows that Fergusson’s writings present two coexisting kinds of cosmopolitanism. Fergusson’s cosmopolitanism reflects the social and cultural environment that formed her when she lived in colonial Philadelphia during the years preceding the American Revo

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,‘A Continual and Almost Exclusive Correspondence’: Philip Mazzei’s Cosmopolitan Citizenship, language to those who lived in the transatlantic world to understand their position in their worlds. For early American writers whose physical mobility reflects the mobility of the colonial world to become American often meant to be a citizen of the world. In Mazzei’s case, Cillerai shows, cosmopol

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,The Cosmopolitan Frame of Olaudah Equiano’s ,,on a tool of empowerment and a tool to counteract the same forces that allow for its existence. The chapter shows that looking at the . from this perspective does not simply reveal Equiano’s cosmopolitanism, it reveals a cosmopolitanism in the context of slavery and the colonial world. It reveals th

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,Jefferson’s Cosmopolitan Nature in ,,teenth-century republic of letters, yet within this larger entity, America stands out for its exceptional characteristics. The cosmopolis Jefferson places at the foundation of his idea of America is a reflection of the imperial connections that made the world he lives in possible.

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,‘A Continual and Almost Exclusive Correspondence’: Philip Mazzei’s Cosmopolitan Citizenship, citizen of the world is supranational, instead he represents an American ideal of citizenship using cosmopolitanism as his model. Mazzei’s representation of citizenship in transnational terms stands in stark contrast to the nascent nationalistic impulses that characterize this historical period.