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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd (Hardcover)
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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd (Hardcover)
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This book argues that modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia
Woolf engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of
collective experience and performative identities. Judith Paltin
compares patterns of crowds in modernist Anglophone literature to
historical arrangements and theories of democratic assembly to
argue that an abstract construction of the crowd engages with the
transformation of popular subjectivity from a nineteenth-century
liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political
multitudes struggling with intersectional conditions of oppression
and precarity. Modernist works, many of which were composed during
the ascendancy of fascism and other populist politics claiming to
be based on the action of the crowd, frequently stage the crowd as
a primal scene for violence; at the same time, they posit a
counterforce in more agile collective gatherings which clarify the
changing relations in literary modernity between subjects and
power.
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