American Crossroads by Streeby, Shelley

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Binding
Hardcover
Book Title
American Crossroads
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780520223141
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520223144
ISBN-13
9780520223141
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2155338

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
399 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
American Sensations : Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture
Subject
Popular Culture, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author
Shelley Streeby
Series
American Crossroads Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2001-006437
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
9
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.309355
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Preface Part 1 American Sensations 1. Introduction: City and Empire in the American 1848 2. George Lippard's 1848: Empire, Amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War Part 2 Foreign Bodies and International Race Romance in the Story Papers 3. The Story Paper Empire 4. Foreign Bodies and International Race Romance 5. From Imperial Adventure to Bowery B'hoys and Buffalo Bill: Ned Buntline, Nativism, and Class Part 3 Land, Labor, and Empire in the Dime Novel 6. The Contradictions of Anti-Imperialism 7. The Hacienda, the Factory, and the Plantation 8. The Dime Novel, the Civil War, and Empire Part 4: Beyond 1848 9. Joaquín Murrieta and Popular Culture Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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. Shelley Streeby uncovers themes and images in this "literature of sensation" that reveal the profound influence that the U.S.-Mexican War and other nineteenth-century imperial ventures throughout the Americas had on U.S. politics and culture. Streeby's analysis of this fascinating body of popular literature and mass culture broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S. history and literature. This accessible, interdisciplinary book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa May Alcott, and many other writers. Streeby also discusses antiwar articles in the labor and land reform press; ideas about Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in popular culture; and much more. Although the Civil War has traditionally been a major period marker in U.S. history and literature, Streeby proposes a major paradigm shift by using mass culture to show that the U.S.-Mexican War and other conflicts with Mexicans and Native Americans in the borderlands were fundamental in forming the complex nexus of race, gender, and class in the United States.
LC Classification Number
2001006437

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