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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West, Benjamin S., 1979-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Lynching in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.