Research Catalog

Title

Crowd violence in American modernist fiction : lynchings, riots and the individual under assault / Benjamin S. West.

Author

West, Benjamin S., 1979-

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.

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Description

191 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This study explores numerous depictions of crowd violence, literal and figurative, found in American Modernist fiction, and shows the ways crowd violence is used as a literary trope to examine issues of racial, gender, national, and class identity during this period"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Violence in literature
• Lynching in literature
• Group identity in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lynch mobs and racial identity in modernist fiction -- Joe Christmas, bigger Thomas and legalized lynching -- Female identity, southern womanhood and crowd narration in Faulkner's fiction -- The crowd at war and at home in Hemingway's and Fitzgerald's fiction -- The Great Depression and migrating crowds in Steinbeck's and Faulkner's fiction -- The road to a conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780786471089 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786471085 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013004399

OCLC

817595682

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library