an anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction
Erschienen:
c2007
Verlag:
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J
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,...
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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 territories. Empire and the Literature of Sensation is a critical anthology of some of the most popular and sensational writings published before the Civil War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures, forbidden love, class conflict, and terrifying encounters with racial "others.". Most of the accounts
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Contents; Chronology; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; The Female Warrior; Magdalena, The Beautiful Mexican Maid; 'Bel of Prairie Eden; A Thrilling and Exciting Account of the Sufferings and Horrible Tortures Inflicted on Mortimer Bowers and Miss Sophia Delaplain; The Prisoner of La Vintresse; Explanatory Notes; About the Editors
