Empire And The Literature Of Sensation
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Empire and The Literature of Sensation
Author | : Jesse Alemán,Shelley Streeby |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2007-07-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813541419 |
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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, although widely distributed in nineteenth-century newspapers, pamphlets, or dime store novels, have long been out of print. Reprinted here for the first time are novelettes by two superstars of the cheap fiction industry, Ned Buntline and George Lippard. Also included are selections from one of the first dime novels as well as the narratives of Leonora Siddons and Sophia Delaplain, both who claim in their autobiographical pamphlets to have cross-dressed as men and participated in the Texas rebellion and Cuban filibustering. Originally written for entertainment and enormously popular in their day, these sensational thrillers reveal for today's audiences how the rhetoric of empire was circulated for mass consumption and how imperialism generated domestic and cultural instability during the period of the American literary renaissance.
American Sensations
Author | : Shelley Streeby |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2002-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520223141 |
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"American Sensations is an erudite and sweeping cultural history of the sensationalist literatures and mass cultures of the American 1848. It is the finest book yet written on the U.S.-Mexican War, and how it was central to the making and unmaking of U.S. mass culture, class, and racial formation."—José David Saldívar, author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies "A major work that will challenge current paradigms of nineteenth-century literature and culture. American Sensations brilliantly succeeds in remapping the volatile and shifting terrain of both national identity and literary history in the mid-nineteenth century."—Amy Kaplan, co-editor of Cultures of United States Imperialism
American Sensations
Author | : Shelley Streeby |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2002-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520229452 |
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"American Sensations is an erudite and sweeping cultural history of the sensationalist literatures and mass cultures of the American 1848. It is the finest book yet written on the U.S.-Mexican War, and how it was central to the making and unmaking of U.S. mass culture, class, and racial formation."—José David Saldívar, author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies "A major work that will challenge current paradigms of nineteenth-century literature and culture. American Sensations brilliantly succeeds in remapping the volatile and shifting terrain of both national identity and literary history in the mid-nineteenth century."—Amy Kaplan, co-editor of Cultures of United States Imperialism
A Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author | : Pamela K. Gilbert |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 2011-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444342215 |
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This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction
Author | : Andrew Mangham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521760744 |
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Accessible and comprehensive account of the sensation novel of the nineteenth century.
Transatlantic Sensations
Author | : John Cyril Barton,Kristin N. Huston,a Preface by David S. Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2016-02-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317008149 |
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Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.Thus establishing a context for the treatment of works by Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Dion Boucicault, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Lippard, Charles Reade, Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Thompson, the volumetakes up a wide range of sensational topics including sexuality, slavery, criminal punishment, literary piracy, mesmerism, and the metaphors of foreign literary invasion and diseased reading. Concluding essays offer a reassessment of the realist and domestic fiction of George Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Thomas Hardy in the context of transatlantic sensationalism, emphasizing the evolution of the genre throughout the century and mapping a new transatlantic lineage for this immensely popular literary form. The book's final essay examines an international kidnapping case that was a journalistic sensation at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate
Author | : Adeline Johns-Putra,Kelly Sultzbach |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2022-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781316512166 |
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This volume unfolds the complex relationship between literature and climate by uniquely illuminating historical complexity, diverse viewpoints, and emerging issues.
Transatlantic Sensations
Author | : Kristin N Huston,Professor Jennifer Phegley,Professor John Cyril Barton |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781409479321 |
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Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and Charles Brockden Brown.Thus establishing a context for the treatment of works by Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Dion Boucicault, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Lippard, Charles Reade, Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Thompson, the volumetakes up a wide range of sensational topics including sexuality, slavery, criminal punishment, literary piracy, mesmerism, and the metaphors of foreign literary invasion and diseased reading. Concluding essays offer a reassessment of the realist and domestic fiction of George Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Thomas Hardy in the context of transatlantic sensationalism, emphasizing the evolution of the genre throughout the century and mapping a new transatlantic lineage for this immensely popular literary form. The book's final essay examines an international kidnapping case that was a journalistic sensation at the turn of the twentieth century.