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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 1848including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for workingclass 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 nineteenthcentury imperial ventures throughout the Americas had on U...

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American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture

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