Scarlet Letters, Dead Letters: Correspondence and the Poetics of Democracy in Melville and Hawthorne

Melville's Wired World: Media, Fact, and Faith in Clarel

“…4 4 On the transformations wrought by the telegraph, see Blondheim, Carey, Headrick, Nunberg, Ong, Orality. On Melville and the telegraph, see Halliday and Hewitt. …”