Stacey Margolis

Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781107107809
• ISBN-10: 1107107806
• Artikelnr.: 43369877

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.