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Reading the Market Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America / Peter Knight.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Peter, 1968- author.
- Series:
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance in art.
- Finance in literature.
- Capitalism and literature--United States--History.
- Capitalism and literature.
- Journalism, Commercial--United States--History.
- Journalism, Commercial.
- Finance--United States--History--20th century.
- Finance.
- Finance--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johns Hopkins University Press 2016
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <P>Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market,"" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In <I>Reading the Market</I>, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.</P><P>Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the st
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Market reports
- Reading the ticker tape
- Picturing the market
- Confidence games and inside information
- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2061-9
- OCLC:
- 953970347
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