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Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. It argues that fiction, in its freedom to represent what resists representation, develops the most groundbreaking theories of the democratic public. These literary accounts of democracy focus less on overt pubic action than the profound effects of everyday social encounters. This book thus departs from recent scholarship, which emphasizes the responsibilities of citizenship and the achievements of oppositional social movements. It demonstrates how novels and stories by Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs and James Fenimore Cooper attempt to understand a public organized not only by explicitly political discourse, but by informal and disorganized social networks.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
• Author: Stacey Margolis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 226
• EAN: 9781107107809
• ISBN: 1107107806
• ID: 09483655
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 448 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 237 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. July 2015

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