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Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

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Informationen zum Autor Mary Esteve is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Concordia University, Montréal. Her work has appeared in ELH, American Literary History, and Genre. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Esteve examines 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 analyses the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. When travellers swarm forth: antebellum urban aesthetics and the contours of the political; 2. In 'the thick of the stream': Henry James and the public sphere; 3. A 'gorgeous neutrality': social justice and Stephen Crane's documentary anaesthetics; 4. Vicious gregariousness: white city, the nation form and the souls of lynched folk; 5. A 'moving mosaic': Harlem, primitivism and Nella Larsen's Quicksand; 6. Breaking the waves: mass immigration, trauma and ethno-political consciousness in Cahan, Yezierska and Roth; Notes; Bibliography; Index....

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Authors Mary Esteve, Mary (Concordia University Esteve
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2007
 
EAN 9780521035903
ISBN 978-0-521-03590-3
No. of pages 276
Series Cambridge Studies in American
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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