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 |
ISBN |
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 |
A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.
The Corsair King
Title | The Corsair King PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Averill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Blackbeard
Title | Blackbeard PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Barker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | Pirates |
ISBN |
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 |
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
Title | American Fiction, 1774-1850 PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Henry Wright |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
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 |
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.