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 and to remedy. Part of what makes this study unique and
important is that it uses the ideology of individualism, still so
powerful and seductive in contemporary America, to build a bridge
between the two major figures from literary periods - Modernism and
American Romanticism - which are often seen in stark opposition. In
doing so, this study extends the critical paradigms and techniques
of one of the most exciting new fields of cultural criticism (the
so-called 'New Americanist' criticism) to cover a period
(Modernism) and a type of writing (poetry) that it has largely
ignored.
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