The arbiters of reality
Subtitle: Hawthorne, Melville, and the rise of mass information culture
By: Peter West.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780814210888
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation; Reality in literature; Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Telegraph -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century; Romanticism -- United States; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forever stained with blood, blood, blood! : murder and mass journalism in Hawthorne's Salem; title: The journalistic origins of romance; title: Hawthorne's city of refuge; title: In this world of lies : Zachary Taylor and the American telegraph in Melville's New York; title: The island telegraph : information culture and the Melvillean self in Typee; title: Benito Cereno and the blunt-thinking American.