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01938aam a2200397 i 4500 001 5B7EF2768B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 150218t20152015nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015004874 020 $a 1107107806 020 $a 9781107107809 035 $a (OCoLC)903688835 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d ALM $d XLM $d CDX $d OCLCO $d COO $d PUL $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374 P633 M37 2015 100 1 $a Margolis, Stacey, $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a Fictions of mass democracy in nineteenth-century America / $c Stacey Margolis, University of Utah. 264 1 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a xi, 211 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Populism in literature. 650 0 $a Democracy in literature. 650 0 $a Public opinion in literature. 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811071/07809/cover/9781107107809.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222040813.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170503023445.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B7EF2768B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search