The aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature / / Mary Esteve

• Autore: Esteve Mary
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 810.9/358
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818440103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; ; 135.