Panic! : markets, crises, & crowds in American fiction / David A. Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, David A. (David Andrew), 1964-

Series:

Cultural studies of the United States.

Cultural studies of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Financial crises in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Depressions in literature.

Popular culture--United States--History.

Popular culture.

Literature and society--United States--History.

Literature and society.

Financial crises--United States--History.

Financial crises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the economic depression of the 1890's and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States. Fiction writers published scores of novels in the period that explored this new cultural phenomenon. In Panic!, David A. Zimmerman studies how American novelists and their readers imagined--and in one case, incited--market crashes and financial panics. Panic! examines how Americans' attitudes toward securities markets, popular investment, and financial catastrophe were entangled

Contents:

Panic and the petroleuse

I can do anything with words : Thomas Lawson's frenzied fictions

Frank Norris and the mesmeric sublime

Melodrama and the moral implications of financial panic

The financier and the ends of accounting.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-288) and index.

ISBN:

9798890879790

9780807877364

0807877360

OCLC:

82368778