The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature: 135 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 135)
by Mary Esteve (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Mary Esteve Page See search results for this author Mary Esteve (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (27 Feb. 2003)
Language: English
Hardcover: 274 pages
ISBN-10: 052181488X
ISBN-13: 9780521814881
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Book Description
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.
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