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 War. It is a collection of transvestite adventures,   forbidden love, class conflict, and terrifying encounters with racial   ''others.'' 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. 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.

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