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.

Մատենագիտական մանրամասներ
Հիմնական հեղինակ: Streeby, Shelley, 1963- (Հեղինակ)
Ձևաչափ: Licensed eBooks
Լեզու:անգլերեն
Հրապարակվել է: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Շարք:American crossroads ; 9.
Առցանց հասանելիություն:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=71473
Բովանդակություն:
  • 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.