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Subject(s)

• American fiction—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Populism in literature [Browse]
• Democracy in literature [Browse]
• Public opinion in literature [Browse]

Series

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

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

Bibliographic references

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.

ISBN

• 9781107107809 (hardback)
• 1107107806 (hardback)

LCCN

2015004874

OCLC

903688835

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