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Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis / Mary Templin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Templin, Mary, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--Women authors.
- Economics in literature.
- Financial crises in literature.
- American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Financial crises.
- History.
- Literature and society.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Literature and society--United States--History.
- Financial crises--United States--History.
- Economics.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 246 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University Alabama Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women's writing that illuminates women's relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Speculation and Failure: Panic Fiction's Common Ground 22
- 2 Domestic Constancy: Preserving Class Identity in 1830s Panic Fiction 61
- 3 Female "Economists": Expanding Women's Financial Agency 106
- 4 Threats from Outside: Defending the Southern Economy 142
- 5 Freedom and Order: Proposing Solutions to 1850s Labor Problems 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817318109
- 0817318100
- OCLC:
- 844728469
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