The Arbiters of Reality : Hawthorne, Melville, and The Rise of Mass Information Culture / / Peter West
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 229 p.) : : ill., map ; |
| Disciplina: | 813/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Arbiters of Reality |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524669903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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