UID:
almafu_9958062008502883
Format:
1 online resource (402 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612762505
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9781282762503
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1282762508
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9780520935877
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052093587X
Series Statement:
American crossroads ; 9
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Preface --
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1. Introduction: City and Empire in the American 1848 --
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2. George Lippard's 1848: Empire, Amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War --
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3. The Story-Paper Empire --
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4. Foreign Bodies and International Race Romance --
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5. From Imperial Adventure to Bowery B'hoys and Buffalo Bill: Ned Buntline, Nativism, and Class --
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6. The Contradictions of Anti-Imperialism --
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7. The Hacienda, the Factory, and the Plantation --
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8. The Dime Novel, the Civil War, and Empire --
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9. Joaquín Murrieta and Popular Culture --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520229457
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520229452
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520223141
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520223144
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520935877
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