LEADER 04122nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910451672703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-15129-7 010 $a9786611151294 010 $a0-8135-4141-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813541419 035 $a(CKB)1000000000481900 035 $a(EBL)328094 035 $a(OCoLC)476125067 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000146172 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912033 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146172 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10185521 035 $a(PQKB)11687278 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC328094 035 $a(OCoLC)190791299 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8077 035 $a(DE-B1597)530215 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813541419 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL328094 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10206179 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL115129 035 $a(OCoLC)991993686 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000481900 100 $a20061122d2007 ub 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEmpire and the literature of sensation$b[electronic resource] $ean anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction /$fedited and with an introduction by Jesse Alema?n and Shelley Streeby 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 225 1 $aMulti-ethnic literatures of the Americas 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4075-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-297). 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aMid-nineteenth-century American literature teems with the energy and excitement characteristic of the nation's era of expansion. It also reveals the intense anxiety and conflict of a country struggling with what it will mean, socially and culturally, to incorporate previously held Spanish territories. Empire and the Literature of Sensation is a critical anthology of some of the most popular and sensational writings published before the Civil War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures, forbidden love, class conflict, and terrifying encounters with racial "others." Most of the accounts, although widely distributed in nineteenth-century newspapers, pamphlets, or dime store novels, have long been out of print. Reprinted here for the first time are novelettes by two superstars of the cheap fiction industry, Ned Buntline and George Lippard. Also included are selections from one of the first dime novels as well as the narratives of Leonora Siddons and Sophia Delaplain, both who claim in their autobiographical pamphlets to have cross-dressed as men and participated in the Texas rebellion and Cuban filibustering. Originally written for entertainment and enormously popular in their day, these sensational thrillers reveal for today's audiences how the rhetoric of empire was circulated for mass consumption and how imperialism generated domestic and cultural instability during the period of the American literary renaissance. 410 0$aMulti-ethnic literatures of the Americas. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century 606 $aPopular literature$zUnited States 606 $aImperialism$vFiction 606 $aIndigenous peoples$zAmerica$vFiction 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction 615 0$aPopular literature 615 0$aImperialism 615 0$aIndigenous peoples 676 $a813/.309358 701 $aAlema?n$b Jesse$f1968-$01040323 701 $aStreeby$b Shelley$f1963-$01040324 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451672703321 996 $aEmpire and the literature of sensation$92463082 997 $aUNINA