05579nam 2201165 a 450 991045501570332120240410063147.01-282-76250-897866127625050-520-93587-X10.1525/9780520935877(CKB)111056485640936(EBL)223357(OCoLC)475927756(SSID)ssj0000102418(PQKBManifestationID)11108569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102418(PQKBWorkID)10050147(PQKB)11580942(MiAaPQ)EBC223357(DE-B1597)519888(OCoLC)50639508(DE-B1597)9780520935877(Au-PeEL)EBL223357(CaPaEBR)ebr10054451(CaONFJC)MIL276250(EXLCZ)9911105648564093620011026d2002 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrAmerican sensations[electronic resource] class, empire, and the production of popular culture /Shelley Streeby1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (402 p.)American crossroads ;9Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22945-2 0-520-22314-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-377) and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Preface --1. Introduction: City and Empire in the American 1848 --2. George Lippard's 1848: Empire, Amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War --3. The Story-Paper Empire --4. Foreign Bodies and International Race Romance --5. From Imperial Adventure to Bowery B'hoys and Buffalo Bill: Ned Buntline, Nativism, and Class --6. The Contradictions of Anti-Imperialism --7. The Hacienda, the Factory, and the Plantation --8. The Dime Novel, the Civil War, and Empire --9. Joaquín Murrieta and Popular Culture --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThis innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncovers themes and images in this "literature of sensation" that reveal the profound influence that the U.S.-Mexican War and other nineteenth-century imperial ventures throughout the Americas had on U.S. politics and culture. Streeby's analysis of this fascinating body of popular literature and mass culture broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S. history and literature. This accessible, interdisciplinary book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa May Alcott, and many other writers. Streeby also discusses antiwar articles in the labor and land reform press; ideas about Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in popular culture; and much more. Although the Civil War has traditionally been a major period marker in U.S. history and literature, Streeby proposes a major paradigm shift by using mass culture to show that the U.S.-Mexican War and other conflicts with Mexicans and Native Americans in the borderlands were fundamental in forming the complex nexus of race, gender, and class in the United States.American crossroads ;9.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPopular literatureUnited StatesHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centurySocial classes in literatureSensationalism in literatureEthnic groups in literatureImperialism in literatureNativism in literatureRace in literature1800s.academic.american culture.american history.amnesia.anti imperialism.class issues.class.classism.cultural studies.empire.factory workers.imperial.imperialism.plantation.pop culture history.pop culture.popular culture.race issues.race.racism.romance.scholarly.united states history.us history.us mexican war.wartime.world history.American fictionHistory and criticism.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistorySocial classes in literature.Sensationalism in literature.Ethnic groups in literature.Imperialism in literature.Nativism in literature.Race in literature.813/.309355Streeby Shelley1963-1040324MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455015703321American sensations2465006UNINA