Table of Contents:
  • Noise (and noise abatement) in Scotland and America
  • To "bring forward a general scream" : George Whitefield, mob rules, and the noise of religious enthusiasm
  • The "torrent's roar" : agricultural improvement, colonial administration, and the reorganization of noise in James Macpherson's The poems of Ossian
  • Creating a "perfect union of opinion" : the polygraph, Thomas Jefferson, and the presidential election of 1800
  • "Periodical visitations" : crises of representation in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.