| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 297 pages) |
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Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas |
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Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century.
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Popular literature -- United States
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Imperialism -- Fiction
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Indigenous peoples -- America -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Imperialism
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Indigenous peoples
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Popular literature
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Imperialismus Motiv
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Literatur
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America
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Anthologie.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Alemán, Jesse, 1968-
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Streeby, Shelley, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9780813541419 |
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0813541417 |
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