Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- THE CROWD MIND -- THE PUBLIC SQUARE -- THE AESTHETIC BEHOLDER -- THE POLITICAL CITIZEN -- CHAPTER 1 When travelers swarm forth: antebellum urban aesthetics and the contours of the political -- PHYSIOLOGY FROM TOP TO TOE -- ORGANS OF JUSTICE -- SHOCK AESTHETICS -- FLUTTERING CORPSES AND CITIZENS -- CHAPTER 2 In "the thick of the stream": Henry James and the public sphere -- DOMESTIC CROWDEDNESS -- GREAT FORCES OF PUBLICITY -- CHAPTER 3 A "gorgeous neutrality": social justice and Stephen Crane's documentary anaesthetics -- ANAESTHETIC REVELATIONS -- GORGEOUS NEUTRALITIES -- CHAPTER 4 Vicious gregariousness: White City, the nation form, and the souls of lynched folk -- WHITE CITY: THE CROWD, THE PUBLIC, THE NATION -- THE LAWFULNESS OF LYNCHING -- UNLYNCHING THE SOUL: THE MARRIAGE OF ONE AND ZERO -- CHAPTER 5 A "moving mosaic": Harlem,primitivism, and Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- CHAPTER 6 Breaking the waves: mass immigration, trauma, and ethno-political consciousness in Cahan, Yezierska, and Roth -- SUCCESSIVE SUCCESSES -- BLOOD AND IRON -- BORN IN THE CRACK -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 ANTEBELLUM AESTHETICS AND THE CONTOURS OF THE POLITICAL -- 2 JAMES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- 3 SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CRANE'S DOCUMENTARY ANAESTHETICS -- 4 WHITE CITY, THE NATION FORM, AND THE SOULS OF LYNCHED FOLK -- 5 HARLEM, PRIMITIVISM, AND LARSEN -- 6 IMMIGRATION, TRAUMA, AND ETHNO-POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS -- Bibliography -- Index.