Ebook: Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity

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.;Acknowledgments; Introduction: Individualism Revisited; 1: Individualism in Early Modernity; 2: Individualism in Late Modernity; About the Contributors.