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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465018203321

Autore

Templin Mary <1959->

Titolo

Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis / / Mary Templin ; cover design, Mary Elizabeth Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University Alabama Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8173-8719-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WatsonMary Elizabeth

Disciplina

810.9/9287

Soggetti

American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Economics in literature

Financial crises in literature

American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Defining a Genre, Recovering Panic Fiction; 1. Speculation and Failure: Panic Fiction's Common Ground; 2. Domestic Constancy: Preserving Class Identity in 1830's Panic Fiction; 3. Female "Economists": Expanding Women's Financial Agency; 4. Threats from Outside: Defending the Southern Economy; 5. Freedom and Order: Proposing Solutions to 1850's Labor Problems; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--