American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture Volume 9

by Shelley Streeby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520229452
• ISBN13: 9780520229457
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"