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



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Autore: Esteve Mary Visualizza persona
Titolo: The aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature / / Mary Esteve Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-13386-6
1-280-16133-7
0-511-12064-8
1-139-14820-6
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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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Serie: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; ; 135.