02761nam 2200613 450 991079766190332120230807193220.01-4985-0636-4(CKB)3710000000476459(EBL)4086459(SSID)ssj0001552640(PQKBManifestationID)16171843(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001552640(PQKBWorkID)14463832(PQKB)11335495(MiAaPQ)EBC4086459(Au-PeEL)EBL4086459(CaPaEBR)ebr11125285(CaONFJC)MIL830991(OCoLC)921846734(EXLCZ)99371000000047645920150810h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican literature, lynching, and the spectator in the crowd spectacular violence /Debbie LelekisLanham [Maryland] :Lexington Books,[2015]©20151 online resource (127 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-0637-2 1-4985-0635-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.A critical introduction: spectatorship and the evolution of crowds in literature the intersection of journalism, politics, and fiction -- Reporting the crowd -- The female reporter as spectator and spectacle -- Confronting the crowd and vigilante violence -- Recounting the horror of the spectacle.American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence examines spectatorship in texts by Theodore Dreiser, Miriam Michelson, Irvin S. Cobb, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. As a figure who is simultaneously within and outside the crowd, the spectator (often in the form of a reporter character) is in a unique position to express the fractures between the individual and the collective in American society, seen most vividly in fictional lynch mob scenes in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcNarration (Rhetoric)Spectators in literaturePoint of view (Literature)American literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Narration (Rhetoric)Spectators in literature.Point of view (Literature)810.9/3552Lelekis Debbie1565275MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797661903321American literature, lynching, and the spectator in the crowd3834782UNINA