Crowd Violence in American Modernist Fiction
Subtitle: Lynchings, Riots and the Individual under Assault
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780786471089
Subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century; Violence in literature; Group identity in literature
Description: "This study explores numerous depictions of crowd violence, literal and figurative, found in American Modernist fiction, and shows the ways crowd violence is used as a literary trope to examine issues of racial, gender, national, and class identity during this period"--Provided by publisher.