Crowd
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19th century british culture
19th century british literature
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Author_John Plotz
british literature
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charlotte bronte
cultural studies
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london
maria edgeworth
political imagination
politicized crowd
politics
popular demonstrations
private space
public demonstrations
public politics
public space
public sphere
representations of crowds
representative crowds
street life
thomas carlyle
thomas de quincey
victorian literature
victorian period
william wordsworth
Product details
- ISBN 9780520219175
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. "The Crowd" sets out to demonstrate the influence of these new crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature. John Plotz offers compelling readings of works by Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Carlyle, William Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Bronte, arguing that new 'representative' crowds became a potent rival for the representational claims of literary texts themselves. As rivals in representation, these crowds triggered important changes not simply in how these authors depicted crowds, but in their notions of public life and privacy in general. "The Crowd" is the first book devoted to an analysis of crowds in British literature. In addition to this being a noteworthy and innovative contribution to literary criticism, it addresses ongoing debates in political theory on the nature of the public-political realm and offers a new reading of the contested public discourses of class, nation, and gender.
In the end, it provides a sophisticated and rich analysis of an important facet of the beginning of the modern age.
John Plotz is Assistant Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University.
