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Families in literature. --- Historical fiction, American --- Plantation life in literature. --- Race in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Families in literature --- Plantation life in literature --- Race in literature --- Family in literature --- History and criticism --- Faulkner, William, --- Mississippi --- In literature.

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Comparative literature --- Sociology of environment --- Thematology --- City and town life in literature. --- City and town life in art. --- City and town life. --- Cities and towns --- Sociology, Urban --- Intellectual life. --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Cultural life --- Culture --- Urban sociology --- Urban studies --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Study and teaching. --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Toegepaste antropologie --- City and town life --- City and town life in art --- City and town life in literature --- Intellectual life --- Study and teaching

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Mary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve examines a range of writing by Poe, Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Du Bois, James, and Stephen Crane among others. These writers, she argues, distinguish between the aesthetics of immersion in a crowd and the mode of collectivity demanded of political-liberal subjects. In their representations of everyday crowds, ranging from streams of urban pedestrians to swarms of train travellers, from upper-class parties to lower-class revivalist meetings, such authors seize on the political problems facing a mass liberal democracy - problems such as the stipulations of citizenship, nation formation, mass immigration and the emergence of mass media. Esteve examines both the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes.

American literature --- Crowds in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Literature and society --- Collective behavior in literature. --- City and town life in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Lynching in literature. --- Aesthetics, American. --- Mobs in literature. --- Race in literature. --- American aesthetics --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- Arts and Humanities

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The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis observes in this ambitious work, a wholesale rethinking of the critical terms and contexts-and thus of the very nature-of western writing. Why is western writing virtually missing from the American literary canon but a frequent success in the marketplace? The skewed status of western literature, Lewis contends, can be directly attributed to the strategies of the region's writers, and these strategies depend consistently on the claim of authenticity. A perusal of western American authorship reveals how these writers effectively present themselves as accurate and reliable recorders of real places, histories, and cultures-but not as stylists or inventors. The imaginative qualities of this literature are thus obscured in the name of authentic reproduction. Through a study of a set of western authors and their relationships to literary and cultural history, Lewis offers a reconsideration of the deceptive and often undervalued history of western American literature. With unequivocal admiration for the literature under scrutiny, Lewis exposes the potential for startling new readings once western writing is freed from its insistence on a questionable authenticity. His book sets out a broader system of inquiry that points writers and critics of western literature in the direction of a new and truly sustaining literary tradition.

Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Western stories --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- West [U.S.] in literature --- American fiction --- Norris, Frank --- Criticism and interpretation --- Miller, Joaquin, 1837?-1913 --- Environmental literature