Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity.Nancy Armstrong,Deborah Cook,James Cruise,Lisa Eck,Megan Heffernan,David Jenemann,Nigel Joseph,Tom McCall,Lucy McNeece,JoAnne Myers,Julie Orlemanski,Jonathon Penny,Dale Shin,Vivasvan Soni,Frederick Turner &Philip Weinstein (eds.) -2011 - Lexington Books.detailsIndividualism: 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.