Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 When travelers swarm forth: antebellum urban aesthetics and the contours of the political
- 2 In “the thick of the stream”: Henry James and the public sphere
- 3 A “gorgeous neutrality”: social justice and Stephen Crane's documentary anaesthetics
- 4 Vicious gregariousness: White City, the nation form, and the souls of lynched folk
- 5 A “moving mosaic”: Harlem, primitivism, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand
- 6 Breaking the waves: mass immigration, trauma, and ethno-political consciousness in Cahan, Yezierska, and Roth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 When travelers swarm forth: antebellum urban aesthetics and the contours of the political
- 2 In “the thick of the stream”: Henry James and the public sphere
- 3 A “gorgeous neutrality”: social justice and Stephen Crane's documentary anaesthetics
- 4 Vicious gregariousness: White City, the nation form, and the souls of lynched folk
- 5 A “moving mosaic”: Harlem, primitivism, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand
- 6 Breaking the waves: mass immigration, trauma, and ethno-political consciousness in Cahan, Yezierska, and Roth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature , pp. 256 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003