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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Streeby, Shelley, 1963-
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
Series:	American crossroads ; 9.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: city and empire in the American 1848
George Lippard's 1848: empire, amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War
The story-paper empire
Foreign bodies and international race romance
From imperial adventure to Bowery B'hoys and Buffalo Bill: Ned Buntline, nativism, and class
The contradictions of anti-imperialism
The hacienda, the factory, and the plantation
The dime novel, the Civil War, and empire
Joaquin Murrieta and popular culture.