{"product_id":"empire-and-the-literature-of-jesse-alemzan-9780813540764","title":"Empire and The Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction","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. \u003ci\u003eEmpire and the Literature of Sensation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesse Alemán\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813540763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813540764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.94h x 7.09w x 0.87d","brand":"Jesse Alemán","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136118309119,"sku":"9780813540764","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_808649bb-053d-4df7-b537-fba1beb9ccfa.jpg?v=1755022401","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empire-and-the-literature-of-jesse-alemzan-9780813540764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}