03739nam 2200613 a 450 991097108820332120240514044306.0979-82-16-22596-61-283-30256-X97866133025640-7391-6587-9(CKB)2550000000050491(EBL)787362(OCoLC)757261275(SSID)ssj0000537889(PQKBManifestationID)12193232(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537889(PQKBWorkID)10554525(PQKB)11566940(Au-PeEL)EBL787362(CaPaEBR)ebr10505849(CaONFJC)MIL330256(MiAaPQ)EBC787362(EXLCZ)99255000000005049120101214d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIndividualism the cultural logic of modernity /edited by Zubin Meer1st ed.Lanham, Md. Lexington Books20111 online resource (284 p.)Papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held at Princeton University.0-7391-2264-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: individualism revisited / Zubin Meer -- A silence in the family tree: the genealogical subject in Heldris of Cornwall's silence / Julie Orlemanski -- Shakespeare's polycentric marketplace: why the individual and the community need not be at odds / Frederick Turner -- "A world of my own creating": private worlds and social selves in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world / Megan Heffernan -- Secrecy and spies: London, 1650-1800 / James Cruise -- Infectious fictions in A journal of the plague year: Defoe and the empirical selfá / Joanne Myers -- The other side of modern individualism: Locke and Defoe / Nancy Armstrong -- Locke's disciplined self: a postcolonial perspective / Nigel Joseph -- The tragedies of sentimentalism: privatizing happiness in the eighteenth century / Vivasvan Soni -- Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction / Philip Weinstein -- Bakhtin, and the apocalypse of self in the modern novel / Jonathon Penny -- Camouflage work: precisionist painting and the hidden subject of modernism / David Jenemann -- The precarious subject of late capitalism: rereading Adorno -- On the "liquidation" of individuality / Dale Shin -- The encrypted individual in dialectic of enlightenment / Tom McCall -- The rise and decline of the individual in Adorno: exit Hamlet, enter Hamm / Deborah Cook -- The individual as Cheshire cat in Reading Lolita in Tehran / Lisa Eck -- Re-orienting the human: the esoteric self / Lucy McNeece.Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity is an edited collection of sixteen essays on the idea of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Reconsidering the eighteenth-century realist novel, twentieth-century modernism, and underappreciated topics on individualism and literature, this volume provocatively revises and enriches our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself.Individualism in literatureIndividualismHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticismIndividualism in literature.IndividualismHistory.English literatureHistory and criticism.809/.93343Meer Zubin1975-1844379MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971088203321Individualism4426943UNINA