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Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture

Hardcover • 2008 • English

Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture

By Peter West

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About the book

"The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture "disrupts our critical sense of nineteenth-century American literature by examining the storytelling strategies of both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville in light of an emerging information industry. Peter West reveals how these writers invoked telegraphic and penny press journalism, daguerreotypy, and moving panoramas in their fiction to claim for themselves a privileged access to a reality beyond the ...Show more

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ISBN

9780814210888

Publisher

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture

Format

Hardcover

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