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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.
American fiction --- Populism in literature. --- Democracy in literature. --- Public opinion in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strain as preoccupied with a subject's inner mental life, it shows that subjects can only be understood, and understand themselves, through
American literature --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Privacy in literature --- Literature and society --- United States --- History --- Public opinion in literature --- Personal space in literature --- Social values in literature --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Warner, Susan Bogert --- Twain, Mark --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Criticism and interpretation --- American fiction --- Privacy in literature. --- Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. --- Public opinion in literature. --- Personal space in literature. --- Social values in literature. --- Individualism in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Populism in literature --- Democracy in literature --- Public opinion in literature --- Brown, Charles Brockden --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Melville, Herman --- Fern, Fanny --- Jacobs, Harriet Ann
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