The Arbiters of Reality Hawthorne, Melville, and The Rise of Mass Information Culture / Peter West.
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TextPublisher: Ohio State University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 229 p.) : ill., mapISBN: 9780814271858; 0814271855Subject(s): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation | Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Romanticism -- United States | Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century | Telegraph -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Reality in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 813/.3 LOC classification: PS1888 | .W47 2008Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
Forever stained with blood, blood, blood! : murder and mass journalism in Hawthorne's Salem -- The journalistic origins of romance -- Hawthorne's city of refuge -- In this world of lies : Zachary Taylor and the American telegraph in Melville's New York -- The island telegraph : information culture and the Melvillean self in Typee -- Benito Cereno and the blunt-thinking American.
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