West, Peter,  1972- <br/><br/>
The Arbiters of Reality  Hawthorne, Melville, and The Rise of Mass Information Culture / 
Peter West. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 229 p.) :   ill., map ; 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814271858 0814271855 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Romanticism--United States.<br/>Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.<br/>Telegraph--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Journalism--United States--History--19th century.<br/>Reality in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS1888  / .W47 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.3