This essay identifies three core sources that have contributed significantly to new leadership theory and examines their content using methods from the field of literary theory. The main discovery to emerge in this process is that a critique of individualism connects these very diverse works. Included in this analysis is (1) Carol Gilligan's writing on the psychological and moral development of women; (2) W. Edwards Deming's organizational theories associated with Total Quality Management; and (3) the early work of Gloria Nemerowicz and Eugene Rosi on the subject of leadership education. The essay also discusses the ideological aspects of new leadership theory.

In the United States between the approximate dates of 1800 and 1870, a group of writers whom I call Romantic Antiquarians invented and disseminated a narrative of Native American prehistory radically at odds with the later findings of modern archaeologists. Romantic Antiquarian discourse borrows from the themes and modes of literary Romanticism, and textual analysis of this work (which enjoyed widespread public acceptance before it was profoundly discredited) offers insights into the complex relationship between Native and Euro-American cultures. This essay provides an overview of the Romantic Antiquarian movement and explores its ideology. The writing of antiquarian Joshua V. H. Clark of New York is examined closely, including his theories concerning the Iroquois, his relationship with E. G. Squier, and his use of the Gothic mode.

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