04122nam 2200733 a 450 991045167270332120200520144314.01-281-15129-797866111512940-8135-4141-710.36019/9780813541419(CKB)1000000000481900(EBL)328094(OCoLC)476125067(SSID)ssj0000146172(PQKBManifestationID)11912033(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146172(PQKBWorkID)10185521(PQKB)11687278(MiAaPQ)EBC328094(OCoLC)190791299(MdBmJHUP)muse8077(DE-B1597)530215(DE-B1597)9780813541419(Au-PeEL)EBL328094(CaPaEBR)ebr10206179(CaONFJC)MIL115129(OCoLC)991993686(EXLCZ)99100000000048190020061122d2007 ub 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmpire and the literature of sensation[electronic resource] an anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction /edited and with an introduction by Jesse Alemán and Shelley StreebyNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20071 online resource (334 p.)Multi-ethnic literatures of the AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4075-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-297).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.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, although widely distributed in nineteenth-century newspapers, pamphlets, or dime store novels, have long been out of print. Reprinted here for the first time are novelettes by two superstars of the cheap fiction industry, Ned Buntline and George Lippard. Also included are selections from one of the first dime novels as well as the narratives of Leonora Siddons and Sophia Delaplain, both who claim in their autobiographical pamphlets to have cross-dressed as men and participated in the Texas rebellion and Cuban filibustering. Originally written for entertainment and enormously popular in their day, these sensational thrillers reveal for today's audiences how the rhetoric of empire was circulated for mass consumption and how imperialism generated domestic and cultural instability during the period of the American literary renaissance. Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas.American fiction19th centuryPopular literatureUnited StatesImperialismFictionIndigenous peoplesAmericaFictionElectronic books.American fictionPopular literatureImperialismIndigenous peoples813/.309358Alemán Jesse1968-1040323Streeby Shelley1963-1040324MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451672703321Empire and the literature of sensation2463082UNINA