Individualism
Subtitle: the cultural logic of modernity
By: edited by Zubin Meer
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780739122648; 9780739165874
Subjects: Individualism in literature; English literature; History and criticism; Individualism; History
Notes: Papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held at Princeton University.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: individualism revisited / Zubin Meer; title: A silence in the family tree: the genealogical subject in Heldris of Cornwall's silence / Julie Orlemanski; title: Shakespeare's polycentric marketplace: why the individual and the community need not be at odds / Frederick Turner; title: "A world of my own creating": private worlds and social selves in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world / Megan Heffernan; title: Secrecy and spies: London, 1650-1800 / James Cruise; title: Infectious fictions in A journal of the plague year: Defoe and the empirical selfá / Joanne Myers; title: The other side of modern individualism: Locke and Defoe / Nancy Armstrong; title: Locke's disciplined self: a postcolonial perspective / Nigel Joseph; title: The tragedies of sentimentalism: privatizing happiness in the eighteenth century / Vivasvan Soni; title: Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction / Philip Weinstein; title: Bakhtin, and the apocalypse of self in the modern novel / Jonathon Penny; title: Camouflage work: precisionist painting and the hidden subject of modernism / David Jenemann; title: The precarious subject of late capitalism: rereading Adorno; title: On the "liquidation" of individuality / Dale Shin; title: The encrypted individual in dialectic of enlightenment / Tom McCall; title: The rise and decline of the individual in Adorno: exit Hamlet, enter Hamm / Deborah Cook; title: The individual as Cheshire cat in Reading Lolita in Tehran / Lisa Eck; title: Re-orienting the human: the esoteric self / Lucy McNeece.