Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Stacey Margolis is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department at the University of Utah. She is the author of The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and her articles have appeared in such journals as NOVEL, English Literary History, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and Arizona Quarterly. Klappentext This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. Zusammenfassung This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. It demonstrates how novels by Edgar Allan Poe! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Herman Melville! Fanny Fern! Harriet Jacobs and James Fenimore Cooper attempt to understand a public organized by political discourse and informal social networks. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Stacey Margolis, Stacey (University of Utah) Margolis, Margolis Stacey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107107809
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10780-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general