"This book studies the historical emergence of a certain kind of politicized crowd with an originality and a brilliance that will make it the definitive work on the crowd in nineteenth-century literature."--John Kucich, author of "Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Charles Dickens" and "The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction." "This book will spark a great deal of debate, and debate of a far-reaching and desirable kind--perhaps even the sort of debate that has followed the ...
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"This book studies the historical emergence of a certain kind of politicized crowd with an originality and a brilliance that will make it the definitive work on the crowd in nineteenth-century literature."--John Kucich, author of "Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Charles Dickens" and "The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction." "This book will spark a great deal of debate, and debate of a far-reaching and desirable kind--perhaps even the sort of debate that has followed the similarly ambitious, paradigm-shifting work of people like D.A. Miller and Mary Poovey." --Bruce Robbins, author of "The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below" and "Secular Vocation: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture." "What a pleasure to read a skilled literary critic who has not only studied classic literary representations of crowds with sensitivity but also grounded them firmly in the actual political history that nurtured and received those representations! John Plotz has built a bridge where only slippery stepping stones existed."--Charles Tilly, author of "Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834" "John Plotz's important new book finds a fascinating point of entry into recent cultural histories of Britain. Plotz brings a keen literary eye to the aesthetics of the early nineteenth-century new mass presence, tracking the crowd through a variety of salient texts as it imprinted itself on the discursive environment of the metropolis. His adept exploration of the new field of collective meanings linking street, citizenry, and nation adds valuably to the growing literature on the public sphere."--Geoff Eley, author of "Remembering the Future " "John Plotz has revived one of the most important topics in nineteenth-century studies and radically reconceived it. He demonstrates that Victorian perceptions of the crowd broke decisively with earlier notions, inaugurating a tradition of interpreting popular demonstrations as symptomatic of much deeper meanings than they ostensibly expressed. He shows how important the deployment and interpretation of bodies became in the era's political imagination." --Catherine Gallagher, author of
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