Empire and the literature of sensation
Subtitle: an anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction
By: edited and with an introduction by Jesse Alemán and Shelley Streeby.
Contributors: Alemán, Jesse, 1968-; Streeby, Shelley, 1963-
Series: Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813540757; 9780813540764
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century; Popular literature -- United States; Imperialism -- Fiction; Indigenous peoples -- America -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A note on the text; title: The female warrior; title: Magdalena, the beautiful Mexican maid / Ned Buntline; title: Bel of Prairie Eden / George Lippard; title: A thrilling and exciting account of the sufferings and horrible tortures inflicted on Mortimer Bowers and Miss Sophia Delaplain; title: The prisoner of La Vintresse / Mary A. Denison.