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By Cary Wolfe

This research analyzes the ability, attract, and effects of radical individualism and the type of cultural critique it generates within the significant determine of yankee Romanticism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the primary determine of yankee modernism, Ezra Pound. either writers got down to criticize and heal the dissociation of ethics, economics, and politics that they observed because the alienating cultural outcome of capitalism. yet simply because their imaginative and prescient of the inalienable person used to be modeled at the constitution and common sense of personal estate, they reproduced the very contradictions and alienations that they got down to critique and conquer of their formidable cultural initiatives.

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