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Title Empire and the literature of sensation : an anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction / edited and with an introduction by Jesse Alemán and Shelley Streeby.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 297 pages).
Series Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas
Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297).
Contents Introduction -- A note on the texts -- The female warrior -- Magdalena, the beautiful Mexican maid / Ned Buntline -- 'Bel of Prairie Eden / George Lippard -- A thrilling and exciting account of the sufferings and horrible tortures inflicted on Mortimer Bowers and Miss Sophia Delaplain -- The prisoner of La Vintresse / Mary Andrews Denison.
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Summary Mid-nineteenth-century American literature teems with the energy and excitement characteristic of the nation?s era of expansion. It also reveals the intense anxiety and conflict of a country struggling with what it will mean, socially and culturally, to incorporate previously held Spanish territories. Empire and the Literature of Sensation is a critical anthology of some of the most popular and sensational writings published before the Civil War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures, forbidden love, class conflict, and terrifying encounters with racial?others.?. Most of the accounts
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century.
Popular literature -- United States.
Imperialism -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- America -- Fiction.
American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
Indigenous peoples. (OCoLC)fst00970213
Popular literature. (OCoLC)fst01071405
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Imperialismus (Motiv)
Literatur.
United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Geschichte 1800-1900.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Anthologie.
Added Author Alemán, Jesse, 1968-
Streeby, Shelley, 1963-
Other Form: Print version: Empire and the literature of sensation. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 9780813540757 0813540755 (DLC) 2006039168 (OCoLC)76794864
ISBN 9780813541419 (electronic bk.)
0813541417 (electronic bk.)
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