Empire and the Literature of Sensation An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Popular Fiction

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."Alemán, Jesse is the author of 'Empire and the Literature of Sensation An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Popular Fiction', published 2007 under ISBN 9780813540764 and ISBN 0813540763.