The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

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.

Author: Mary Esteve
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/27/2003
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521814881

About the Author
Esteve, Mary: - Mary Esteve is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Concordia University, Montréal. Her work has appeared in ELH, American Literary History, and Genre.