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The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

Mary Esteve

出版	Cambridge University Press, 2003-02-27
主題	Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN	11394362019781139436205
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RkvAX42osxUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.