New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. In works by Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, and W. G. Sebald, literary style and depictions of the everday reveal larger political meanings. Rebecca L. Walkowitz argues that these writers developed a "critical cosmopolitanism," consisting of an effort to think beyond the nation and to explore different versions of transnational thought.