American Crossroads

by Shelley Streeby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520223144
• ISBN13: 9780520223141
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"