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The figure of the crowd in early modern London : the city and its double /
This book examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. Munro explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Early modern cultural studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. Munro explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781403978738 1403978735 1281364169 9781281364166 9781403966421 1403966427 |