num_pages: 276
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
titlecomplete: The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 135)
ratings_count: 5
series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
publisher: Cambridge University Press