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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Judith Paltin Cambridge University Press 2020 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 […]