Introduction: individualism revisited / Zubin Meer
A silence in the family tree: the genealogical subject in Heldris of Cornwall's silence / Julie Orlemanski
Shakespeare's polycentric marketplace: why the individual and the community need not be at odds / Frederick Turner
"A world of my own creating": private worlds and social selves in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world / Megan Heffernan
Secrecy and spies: London, 1650-1800 / James Cruise
Infectious fictions in A journal of the plague year: Defoe and the empirical selfá / Joanne Myers
The other side of modern individualism: Locke and Defoe / Nancy Armstrong
Locke's disciplined self: a postcolonial perspective / Nigel Joseph
The tragedies of sentimentalism: privatizing happiness in the eighteenth century / Vivasvan Soni
Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction / Philip Weinstein
Bakhtin, and the apocalypse of self in the modern novel / Jonathon Penny
Camouflage work: precisionist painting and the hidden subject of modernism / David Jenemann
The precarious subject of late capitalism: rereading Adorno
On the "liquidation" of individuality / Dale Shin
The encrypted individual in dialectic of enlightenment / Tom McCall
The rise and decline of the individual in Adorno: exit Hamlet, enter Hamm / Deborah Cook
The individual as Cheshire cat in Reading Lolita in Tehran / Lisa Eck
Re-orienting the human: the esoteric self / Lucy McNeece.