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Author:

Margolis, Stacey, 1966- author.

Title:

Fictions of mass democracy in nineteenth-century America / Stacey Margolis, University of Utah.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Populism in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Public opinion in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.

Contents:

1. Network theory circa 1800: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn; 2. Gossip in the age of print: Poe's crowdsourcing; 3. The people's curse: Hawthorne's network theory of power; 4. Publics, counterpublics, networks: the viral complaint of Melville, Fern, and Jacobs; 5. The tyranny of opinion: Cooper's The Ways of the Hour.

Summary:

This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

ISBN:

1107107806
9781107107809

OCLC:

(OCoLC)903688835

LCCN:

2015004874

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)