04562nam 22009012 450 991081844010332120151005020621.01-107-13386-61-280-16133-70-511-12064-81-139-14820-60-511-06497-70-511-05864-00-511-30581-80-511-48549-20-511-07343-7(CKB)1000000000018463(EBL)218010(OCoLC)57123405(SSID)ssj0000099590(PQKBManifestationID)11108872(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099590(PQKBWorkID)10012002(PQKB)11184826(UkCbUP)CR9780511485497(MiAaPQ)EBC218010(Au-PeEL)EBL218010(CaPaEBR)ebr10069943(CaONFJC)MIL16133(EXLCZ)99100000000001846320090226d2003|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature /Mary Esteve[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2003.1 online resource (x, 262 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;135Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-03590-2 0-521-81488-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.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 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.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.Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;135.The Aesthetics & Politics of the Crowd in American LiteratureAmerican literatureHistory and criticismCrowds in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesLiterature and societyUnited StatesCollective behavior in literatureCity and town life in literatureImmigrants in literatureLynching in literatureAesthetics, AmericanMobs in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Crowds in literature.Politics and literatureLiterature and societyCollective behavior in literature.City and town life in literature.Immigrants in literature.Lynching in literature.Aesthetics, American.Mobs in literature.Race in literature.810.9/358Esteve Mary600924UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910818440103321Aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature1019900UNINA