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  3. Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2020
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781108907026
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907026
Subjects:
Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1900-1945
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Book description

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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‘… dense but perfectly argued … Paltin's important, innovative study is published at an opportune moment.’

Gerri Kimber Source: The Times Literary Supplement

‘The text itself is definitely easier to approach in Field’s version as the tales are not obscured by countless footnotes and different kinds of brackets. With the amount of reconstructive work done by Field, it is visible that this kind of layout is a logical choice. It seems that the reader’s comfort as well as usability and functionality have been thought out … an interesting addition to Arthurian literature studies and can be used both by students and academic scholars for different purposes.’

Malwina Wiśniewska-Przymusińska Source: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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