Empire and The Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction

by Jesse Alemán

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813540763
• ISBN13: 9780813540764
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.9"