The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature Book

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	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	When travelers swarm forth: antebellum urban aesthetics and the contours of the political	22
2	In "the thick of the stream": Henry James and the public sphere	59
3	A "gorgeous neutrality": social justice and Stephen Crane's documentary anaesthetics	96
4	Vicious gregariousness: White City, the nation form, and the souls of lynched folk	118
5	A "moving mosaic": Harlem, primitivism, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand	152
6	Breaking the waves: mass immigration, trauma, and ethno-political consciousness in Cahan, Yezierska, and Roth	172
	Notes	200
	Bibliography	239
	Index	256