TY  - BOOK
AU  - West,Peter
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and The Rise of Mass Information Culture 
SN  - 9780814271858
AV  - PS1888 .W47 2008
U1  - 813/.3 22
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Telegraph
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Reality in literature
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27870/
ER  -