The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521035903)

As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Mary Esteve examines a range of writing by Poe, Hawthorne, Du Bois, James, and Stephen Crane to provide a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. She argues that these writers examined the aesthetic and political meanings of urban crowd scenes.

Author: Mary Esteve
ISBN-10: 0521035902
ISBN-13: 9780521035903
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2007
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d