"This book studies the historical emergence of a certain kind of
politicized crowd with an originality and a brilliance that will
make it the definitive work on the crowd in nineteenth-century
literature."--John Kucich, author of "Repression in Victorian
Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Charles Dickens and
"The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction.
"This book will spark a great deal of debate, and debate of a
far-reaching and desirable kind--perhaps even the sort of debate
that has followed the similarly ambitious, paradigm-shifting work
of people like D.A. Miller and Mary Poovey." --Bruce Robbins,
author of "The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below and
"Secular Vocation: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture.
"What a pleasure to read a skilled literary critic who has not
only studied classic literary representations of crowds with
sensitivity but also grounded them firmly in the actual political
history that nurtured and received those representations! John
Plotz has built a bridge where only slippery stepping stones
existed."--Charles Tilly, author of "Popular Contention in Great
Britain, 1758-1834
"John Plotz's important new book finds a fascinating point of
entry into recent cultural histories of Britain. Plotz brings a
keen literary eye to the aesthetics of the early nineteenth-century
new mass presence, tracking the crowd through a variety of salient
texts as it imprinted itself on the discursive environment of the
metropolis. His adept exploration of the new field of collective
meanings linking street, citizenry, and nation adds valuably to the
growing literature on the public sphere."--Geoff Eley, author of
"Remembering the Future
"John Plotz has revived one of the most important topics in
nineteenth-century studies and radically reconceived it. He
demonstrates that Victorian perceptions of the crowd broke
decisively with earlier notions, inaugurating a tradition of
interpreting popular demonstrations as symptomatic of much deeper
meanings than they ostensibly expressed. He shows how important the
deployment and interpretation of bodies became in the era's
political imagination." --Catherine Gallagher, author of
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