LEADER 04562nam 22009012 450 001 9910783286303321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-13386-6 010 $a1-280-16133-7 010 $a0-511-12064-8 010 $a1-139-14820-6 010 $a0-511-06497-7 010 $a0-511-05864-0 010 $a0-511-30581-8 010 $a0-511-48549-2 010 $a0-511-07343-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000018463 035 $a(EBL)218010 035 $a(OCoLC)57123405 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000099590 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108872 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099590 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10012002 035 $a(PQKB)11184826 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511485497 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC218010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL218010 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10069943 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL16133 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000018463 100 $a20090226d2003|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature /$fMary Esteve$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 262 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v135 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-03590-2 311 $a0-521-81488-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index. 327 $aWhen 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. 330 $aMary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve examines a range of writing by Poe, Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Du Bois, James, and Stephen Crane among others. These writers, she argues, distinguish between the aesthetics of immersion in a crowd and the mode of collectivity demanded of political-liberal subjects. In their representations of everyday crowds, ranging from streams of urban pedestrians to swarms of train travellers, from upper-class parties to lower-class revivalist meetings, such authors seize on the political problems facing a mass liberal democracy - problems such as the stipulations of citizenship, nation formation, mass immigration and the emergence of mass media. Esteve examines both the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes. 410 0$aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v135. 517 3 $aThe Aesthetics & Politics of the Crowd in American Literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCrowds in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States 606 $aCollective behavior in literature 606 $aCity and town life in literature 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aLynching in literature 606 $aAesthetics, American 606 $aMobs in literature 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCrowds in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aCollective behavior in literature. 615 0$aCity and town life in literature. 615 0$aImmigrants in literature. 615 0$aLynching in literature. 615 0$aAesthetics, American. 615 0$aMobs in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.9/358 700 $aEsteve$b Mary$0600924 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783286303321 996 $aAesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature$91019900 997 $aUNINA