Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd
Author | : Judith Paltin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781108842235 |
ISBN-13 | : 1108842232 |
Rating | : 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Download or read book Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd written by Judith Paltin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that literary modernists engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities; their work clarifies how popular subjectivity evolves from a nineteenth-century liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political multitudes struggling with conditions of oppression.