Fictions Of Mass Democracy In Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture, Series Number 173)

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.

• | Author: Stacey Margolis
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 23, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 226 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1107107806
• | ISBN-13: 9781107107809