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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margolis, Stacey, 1966- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Populism in literature.

Democracy in literature.

Public opinion in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781107107809

1107107806

OCLC:

903688835

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