Lucy Morley: Or, The Young Officer

Lucy Morley: Or, The Young Officer
Title Lucy Morley: Or, The Young Officer PDF eBook
Author Alice Cleveland
Publisher
Pages 108
Release 1846
Genre Indian captivities
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Texas Women Writers

Texas Women Writers
Title Texas Women Writers PDF eBook
Author Sylvia Ann Grider
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 484
Release 1997
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780890967652

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A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.

The Corsair King

The Corsair King
Title The Corsair King PDF eBook
Author Charles E. Averill
Publisher
Pages 104
Release 1847
Genre
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Blackbeard

Blackbeard
Title Blackbeard PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Barker
Publisher
Pages 52
Release 1847
Genre Pirates
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American Sensations

American Sensations
Title American Sensations PDF eBook
Author Shelley Streeby
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 402
Release 2002-05-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 052093587X

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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 ventures throughout the Americas had on U.S. politics and culture. Streeby's analysis of this fascinating body of popular literature and mass culture broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S. history and literature. This accessible, interdisciplinary book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa May Alcott, and many other writers. Streeby also discusses antiwar articles in the labor and land reform press; ideas about Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in popular culture; and much more. Although the Civil War has traditionally been a major period marker in U.S. history and literature, Streeby proposes a major paradigm shift by using mass culture to show that the U.S.-Mexican War and other conflicts with Mexicans and Native Americans in the borderlands were fundamental in forming the complex nexus of race, gender, and class in the United States.

American Fiction, 1774-1850

American Fiction, 1774-1850
Title American Fiction, 1774-1850 PDF eBook
Author Lyle Henry Wright
Publisher
Pages 292
Release 1939
Genre American fiction
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To the Halls of the Montezumas

To the Halls of the Montezumas
Title To the Halls of the Montezumas PDF eBook
Author Robert W. Johannsen
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 376
Release 1988-01-21
Genre History
ISBN 0190281472

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For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.