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The aesthetics and politics of the crowd in American literature /
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 politica...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
135. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- When travelers 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 Roth.