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Chapter 1 - Compositions of the Crowds of Modernism
Judith Paltin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Published online:

19 November 2020

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03 December 2020, pp 12-46
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"Compositions of the Crowds of Modernism" gives a preliminary assessment of modernist crowds’ of-what and with-what, that is, the experimental taxonomies and relations of collective life as composed in fiction by writers such as Conrad, Woolf, and H.G. Wells. The chapter describes some of the terrains and territories of modern crowds, including the structures and political ecologies within which mass societies were forming and to which modernist literatures respond. It enlists concepts such as equal relations, virtuality, and crowd symbols to understand the twentieth century’s disruptive struggles over inherited and established identities such as nation, gender, class, or race.