Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN-10
1107107806
ISBN-13
9781107107809
Category
History
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
2015-07-23
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Stacey Margolis

Description

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.

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