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

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alemán, Jesse, 1968-, Streeby, Shelley, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas.
Temas:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900.
American fiction > 19th century.
Popular literature > United States.
Imperialism > Fiction.
Indigenous peoples > America > Fiction.
Roman américain > 19e siècle.
Paralittérature > États-Unis.
Impérialisme > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Imperialism
Indigenous peoples
Popular literature
Imperialismus > Motiv
Literatur
America
United States
USA
Fiction
Anthologie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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