The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521814881)

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: 052181488X
ISBN-13: 9780521814881
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2003
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d