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Fictions of mass democracy in nineteenth-century America

Title
Fictions of mass democracy in nineteenth-century America / Stacey Margolis, University of Utah.
Author
Margolis, Stacey, 1966-
Publication
  • New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • ©2015
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Description
xi, 211 pages; 24 cm
Summary
This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 15-6528
ISBN
  • 9781107107809
  • 1107107806
LCCN
2015004874
OCLC
903688835
Author
Margolis, Stacey, 1966- author.
Title
Fictions of mass democracy in nineteenth-century America / Stacey Margolis, University of Utah.
Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
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