LEADER 05579nam 2201165 a 450 001 9910455015703321 005 20240410063147.0 010 $a1-282-76250-8 010 $a9786612762505 010 $a0-520-93587-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520935877 035 $a(CKB)111056485640936 035 $a(EBL)223357 035 $a(OCoLC)475927756 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102418 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108569 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102418 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10050147 035 $a(PQKB)11580942 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223357 035 $a(DE-B1597)519888 035 $a(OCoLC)50639508 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520935877 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223357 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054451 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276250 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485640936 100 $a20011026d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican sensations$b[electronic resource] $eclass, empire, and the production of popular culture /$fShelley Streeby 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (402 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican crossroads ;$v9 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22945-2 311 0 $a0-520-22314-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-377) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface --$t1. Introduction: City and Empire in the American 1848 --$t2. George Lippard's 1848: Empire, Amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War --$t3. The Story-Paper Empire --$t4. Foreign Bodies and International Race Romance --$t5. From Imperial Adventure to Bowery B'hoys and Buffalo Bill: Ned Buntline, Nativism, and Class --$t6. The Contradictions of Anti-Imperialism --$t7. The Hacienda, the Factory, and the Plantation --$t8. The Dime Novel, the Civil War, and Empire --$t9. Joaquín Murrieta and Popular Culture --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncovers themes and images in this "literature of sensation" that reveal the profound influence that the U.S.-Mexican War and other nineteenth-century imperial ventures throughout the Americas had on U.S. politics and culture. Streeby's analysis of this fascinating body of popular literature and mass culture broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S. history and literature. This accessible, interdisciplinary book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa May Alcott, and many other writers. Streeby also discusses antiwar articles in the labor and land reform press; ideas about Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in popular culture; and much more. Although the Civil War has traditionally been a major period marker in U.S. history and literature, Streeby proposes a major paradigm shift by using mass culture to show that the U.S.-Mexican War and other conflicts with Mexicans and Native Americans in the borderlands were fundamental in forming the complex nexus of race, gender, and class in the United States. 410 0$aAmerican crossroads ;$v9. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular literature$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aSensationalism in literature 606 $aEthnic groups in literature 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aNativism in literature 606 $aRace in literature 610 $a1800s. 610 $aacademic. 610 $aamerican culture. 610 $aamerican history. 610 $aamnesia. 610 $aanti imperialism. 610 $aclass issues. 610 $aclass. 610 $aclassism. 610 $acultural studies. 610 $aempire. 610 $afactory workers. 610 $aimperial. 610 $aimperialism. 610 $aplantation. 610 $apop culture history. 610 $apop culture. 610 $apopular culture. 610 $arace issues. 610 $arace. 610 $aracism. 610 $aromance. 610 $ascholarly. 610 $aunited states history. 610 $aus history. 610 $aus mexican war. 610 $awartime. 610 $aworld history. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aSensationalism in literature. 615 0$aEthnic groups in literature. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aNativism in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a813/.309355 700 $aStreeby$b Shelley$f1963-$01040324 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455015703321 996 $aAmerican sensations$92465006 997 $aUNINA