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UNINA9910524669903321 |
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West Peter <1972-> |
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Titolo |
The Arbiters of Reality : Hawthorne, Melville, and The Rise of Mass Information Culture / / Peter West |
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 |
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©2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 229 p.) : : ill., map ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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