Empire and The Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA))
By Unknown Author.
Description
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...
ISBN(s)
0813540763, 9780813540764
