American sensations : class, empire, and the production of popular culture /
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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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| Serier: | American crossroads ;
9. |
| Online adgang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=71473 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.