The Arbiters of Reality Hawthorne, Melville, and The Rise of Mass Information Culture / Peter West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Peter, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Romanticism--United States.

Romanticism.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Telegraph--United States--History--19th century.

Telegraph.

Journalism--United States--History--19th century.

Journalism.

Reality in literature.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 229 p.) : ill., map ;

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Forever stained with blood, blood, blood! : murder and mass journalism in Hawthorne's Salem

The journalistic origins of romance

Hawthorne's city of refuge

In this world of lies : Zachary Taylor and the American telegraph in Melville's New York

The island telegraph : information culture and the Melvillean self in Typee

Benito Cereno and the blunt-thinking American.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.

OCLC:

1082291498

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access