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UNINA9910818440103321 |
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Autore |
Esteve Mary |
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The aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature / / Mary Esteve [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
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1-107-13386-6 |
1-280-16133-7 |
0-511-12064-8 |
1-139-14820-6 |
0-511-06497-7 |
0-511-05864-0 |
0-511-30581-8 |
0-511-48549-2 |
0-511-07343-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; ; 135 |
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Disciplina |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Crowds in literature |
Politics and literature - United States |
Literature and society - United States |
Collective behavior in literature |
City and town life in literature |
Immigrants in literature |
Lynching in literature |
Aesthetics, American |
Mobs in literature |
Race in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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When travelers swarm forth: antebellum urban aesthetics and the contours of the political -- In 'the thick of the stream': Henry James and the public sphere -- A 'gorgeous neutrality': social justice and Stephen |
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Crane's documentary anaesthetics -- Vicious gregariousness: white city, the nation form, and the souls of lynched folk -- A 'moving mosaic': Harlem, primitivism, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- Breaking the waves: mass immigration, trauma, and ethno-political consciousness in Cahan, Yezierska, and Roth. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve examines a range of writing by Poe, Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Du Bois, James, and Stephen Crane among others. These writers, she argues, distinguish between the aesthetics of immersion in a crowd and the mode of collectivity demanded of political-liberal subjects. In their representations of everyday crowds, ranging from streams of urban pedestrians to swarms of train travellers, from upper-class parties to lower-class revivalist meetings, such authors seize on the political problems facing a mass liberal democracy - problems such as the stipulations of citizenship, nation formation, mass immigration and the emergence of mass media. Esteve examines both the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes. |
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