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UNINA9910465018203321 |
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Autore |
Templin Mary <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis / / Mary Templin ; cover design, Mary Elizabeth Watson |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University Alabama Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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"-- |
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