The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson

by Cary Wolfe

Book Overview

In The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that any form of individualism that is modelled on the logic and structure of private property will always reproduce the very contradictions and alienations that it set out to criticise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521107326
• ISBN13: 9780521107327
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"