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American sensations : class, empire, and the production of popular culture / / Shelley Streeby



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Autore: Streeby Shelley <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: American sensations : class, empire, and the production of popular culture / / Shelley Streeby Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.309355
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Popular literature - United States - History and criticism
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century
Social classes in literature
Sensationalism in literature
Ethnic groups in literature
Imperialism in literature
Nativism in literature
Race in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-377) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: American sensations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-76250-8
9786612762505
0-520-93587-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455015703321
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Serie: American crossroads ; ; 9.