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.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A politics of difference; 2. Critiques of capitalist (literary) production; 3. Economies of individualism; 4. 'Gynocracy' and 'red blood'; 5. Visionary capital; 6. Ideologies of the organic; 7. Signs that bind: ideology and form in Pound's poetics; Notes; Index.