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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785755203321

Autore

Ratner Lorman

Titolo

Paradoxes of prosperity [[electronic resource] ] : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America / / Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-58295-3

9786613895400

0-252-09222-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaufmanPaula T

TeeterDwight L

Disciplina

071.309034

Soggetti

Journalism - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

American newspapers - History - 19th century

American periodicals - History - 19th century

Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century

Publishers and publishing - United States - History - 19th century

Wealth - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Ethics - United States - History - 19th century

United States Social life and customs 1783-1865

United States Intellectual life 1783-1865

United States Moral conditions

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 (p. [129]-142) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Communicating the prosperity-morality paradox during the mid-nineteenth-century publishing boom -- New York's newspaper giants during the anxious 1850's -- Two newspapers, south and west -- Harper's magazine and the Southern literary messenger : self-styled guardians of the republic -- Godey's lady's book : the guide for middle-class women -- Merchant magazines : the businessman's guide and conscience -- Women writers : defending the Christian republic -- Male writers : wrestling with the marketplace -- Past times and faraway places.