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9780521035903

The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

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    9780521035903

  • ISBN10:

    0521035902

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-08-06
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
When travellers 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 cRoth
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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