American sensations : class, empire, and the production of popular culture /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Streeby, Shelley, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series:American crossroads ; 9.
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