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Autore: |
Esteve Mary
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Titolo: |
The aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature / / Mary Esteve
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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 |
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