Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

ISBN-13: 9781107107809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 226 str.

Stacey Margolis

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Historically rigorous, formally astute, and theoretically provocative … assuredly will shape discussions surrounding democracy's place in nineteenth-century US literature and culture in the years to come.' John Funchion, American Literature

Spis treści

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.