Crowd Violence in American Modernist Fiction

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"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.

subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  Violence in literature,  Group identity in literature,  American fiction,  History and criticism,  Lynching in literature