The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521035903
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism : Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject
First sentence: "When Walt Whitman, democratic crowd champion bar none, salutes the people of the polity, he looks to the masses crossing Brooklyn Ferry, the crowds milling about Manhattan's commercial district, the tides flowing through Broadway."