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Empire and the Literature of Sensation - An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Popular Fiction (Paperback)
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Empire and the Literature of Sensation - An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Popular Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA)
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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 as dime 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 first-person narratives of Leonora Siddons
and Sophia Delaplain, both of whom claim in their 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. Jesse Aleman is an associate professor of English at
the University of New Mexico. He has published in a variety of
journals and edited the reprint of Loreta Janeta Velazquez's The
Woman in Battle. Shelley Streeby is an associate professor of
literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her first
book, American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of
Popular Culture, was awarded the American Studies Association's
Lora Romero First Book Prize.
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