..., retrospectively, be described as neoliberalism. The neoliberal style this essay explicates allows for subjects under neoliberalism to inhabit a position that limits politics to the confines of individual entrepreneurialism and consumerism, thus broadcasting politics as not a collective enterprise but instead...

... also want to underline the limitations of secular civil society insofar as it trans- forms beliefs and convictions into interests. Two Franklins and One More Two Franklins dominate recent scholarship, both grounded firmly in civil society: entrepreneurial Franklin and public...

... of the ‘‘ideal average prudent man’’ (76), Clarence Darrow’s culturalist effort to attri- 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 217 of 255 bute blame to the environment rather than the individual can lead to an absur- dity, with mitigating circumstances erasing all culpability...

..., see, in particular, Jenkins 1954 , 30–41, and Baldoz 2011 , 156–93. 29 Martin’s entrepreneurial aspirations evoke the kind of modernizing spirit symbolized by Crisóstomo Ibarra of Rizal’s Noli me tangere . Both characters return home emboldened to improve their family’s lot...

... an entrepreneurial individualism, a “hustler” mentality, and aligns with a hip-hop generation, simultaneously endorsing a neoliberal logic and critiquing the status quo. The choice of the spectacularly styled socialist icon Che Guevara—a Marxist revolutionary’s conspicuous consumption of “bling”—points...

... Both Block and Irene Tucker ( 2012 ) helpfully emphasize the cycles of collective description, classification, and theorization that make it possible to see , for instance, a “black woman” in the unique and constantly changing body of an individual. This essay analyzes the form of almost 1,900...

... works of Western literature accessible without prerequisite academic knowledge. These methods facilitated teaching nontraditional students who attended postwar universities and lacked such preparation. While Chu and Yen retained the inclusive rhetoric of close reading, individual writing played little...

...—offers an occasion for the private individual, through the aesthetic object, to claim a substantiality for which he or she lacks validation. The aesthetic object is constitutive, not reflective, of identity and as such imagines social potentialities otherwise unavail- able to consciousness. Recent...

... tradition. Constance García-Barrio ( 1980 , 97) identifies folklore as “the invisible baggage West Africans brought to the New World” and hails the many “Black women in North and South America” who have used their “art and sensitivity [as] individual storytellers” to create “an inner treasury” from...

... the new, entrepreneurial style of scientists like human genome sequencer Craig Venter, who conduct their work with an eye on the profit margin. Indeed, it could be argued, Wu’s employment by Ham- mond requires that he adapt an entrepreneurial outlook. As the two novels together make clear, however...

... Lee’s novel On Such a Full Sea (2014) is the culmination of a consistent conceit to revamp and remap literary realism in order to represent “the way the histories of individual ethnic groups may impact their interaction with one another” (Anderson, 37). I want to suggest how Chang-rae Lee’s narrative...

... sentimental discourse 114 American Literature will also recognize the nostalgic dimension of this kind of bachelor reminiscence, as the married male enacts scenes of self-memorial as the effect of individual, if only temporary, freedom. Early-nineteenth-century writing about the American bachelor re...

...—a realm whose currency is the rhetoric of individualism and expression rather than mundane realities of external intersubjectivity—these texts help bring the conversation back to earth. Taken as a whole, these texts view black collectivity as both entrepreneurial and improvisational—with all the spaces...

... highly ambivalent yet deeply entangled position in relation to ongoing attempts to upgrade and entrepreneurialize the humanities and scholarship and higher education broadly. The laboratory is a place of labor, but where labor is subordinated to the task of elaboration. In the lab, there are consistent...

... on the fields they once worked as slaves. Without land or a political voice, what would become of individuals who were no longer enslaved but not yet citizens?1 In the midst of December’s uncertainty, a press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, began production of a slim cloth-bound volume...

... is that we might want to focus less on the actions and psychologies of individual characters and more on their aggregate configuration: their mutualities and equivalences within a pattern of correlated gain and loss. (112–13) What this means in practice for Dimock’s brilliant reading of The Rise...

... this decline in educational outcomes. In making this argument I will rely particularly on data from William Bowen, Matthew Chingos, and Michael McPher- son’s Crossing the Finish Line, which rests on data sets that its authors constructed with unusual access to individual student records (CFL, ix...

... mostly Northern, entrepreneurial men whose race or class position American Captivity in Barbary  made the sea attractive. They were representative of a “Yankee” ethos that would later come to define the entire country by the end of the antebellum era...

..., as the individual salesman, took on. Though Frank Whitney praises him for his contribution to Greeley’s and Bennett’s empires, Dick insists that he is happy to have moved on from his time as a newsboy. Given Alger’s anxieties about the potential destruction of journalistic truth at the hands of the marketplace...

... of governing,” widely impacted cultural life and disrupted long-standing historical relations between nations and between individuals and their local and national communities. In the face of unstable economic conditions and populations experiencing rapid shifts and migration, national institutions no longer...