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Empire and the literature of sensation : an anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction /

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 territorie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Alemán, Jesse, 1968-, Streeby, Shelley, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Series:Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A note on the texts
  • The female warrior
  • Magdalena, the beautiful Mexican maid / Ned Buntline
  • 'Bel of Prairie Eden / George Lippard
  • A thrilling and exciting account of the sufferings and horrible tortures inflicted on Mortimer Bowers and Miss Sophia Delaplain
  • The prisoner of La Vintresse / Mary Andrews Denison.