The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

By Mary Esteve

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052181488X
• ISBN13: 9780521814881
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"