The Crowd
Subtitle: British Literature and Public Politics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780520219175
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Literary studies: 19th century; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social groups & communities; c 1800 to c 1900; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Great Britain; English; Literature: Classics; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; 19th century; English literature; History; History and criticism; Political fiction, English; Politics and literature
First sentence: In the first decade of the great century of crowds, the literary changes wrought by new forms of social aggregation come nowhere more vividly to light than in Wordsworth's 1805 The Prelude.