The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double by Munro, I.

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403966421)

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The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double by Munro, I.

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double

$54.99
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double by Munro, I.

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book 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.

Author: I. Munro
ISBN-10: 1403966427
ISBN-13: 9781403966421
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.10w x 0.78d
By I. Munro
By I. Munro
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IAN MUNRO is a specialist in early modern theater, literature and culture. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998 and now teaches at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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