作者 Margolis, Stacey, 1966- author.

標題 Fictions of mass democracy in nineteenth-century America / Stacey Margolis, University of Utah.

目錄
	Acknowledgments					xi
	Introduction: The Public before Polling					1
1.	Network Theory Circa 1800: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn					27
2.	Gossip in the Age of Print: Poe's Crowdsourcing					50
3.	The People's Curse: Hawthorne's Network Theory of Power					72
4.	Publics, Counterpublics, Networks: The Viral Complaint of Melville, Fern, and Jacobs					100
5.	The Tyranny of Opinion: Cooper's The Ways of the Hour					125
	Coda: The Public after Polling					147
	Notes					153
	Bibliography					189
	Index					209