03244nam 2200721 a 450 991077760690332120230502234503.0979-88-908797-9-00-8078-7736-0(CKB)1000000000467161(EBL)880482(OCoLC)82368778(SSID)ssj0000217739(PQKBManifestationID)11173297(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217739(PQKBWorkID)10223404(PQKB)11299499(Au-PeEL)EBL880482(CaPaEBR)ebr10273402(CaONFJC)MIL930336(MiAaPQ)EBC880482(EXLCZ)99100000000046716120051201d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPanic! markets, crises, & crowds in American fiction /David A. ZimmermanChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20061 online resource (309 p.)Cultural studies of the United StatesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-5687-8 0-8078-3023-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-288) and index.Panic and the pétroleuse -- 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.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 entangledCultural studies of the United States.Panic! :markets, crises, and crowds in American fictionAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFinancial crises in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismDepressions in literaturePopular cultureUnited StatesHistoryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistoryFinancial crisesUnited StatesHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Financial crises in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Depressions in literature.Popular cultureHistory.Literature and societyHistory.Financial crisesHistory.813/.4093553Zimmerman David A(David Andrew),1964-1485083MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777606903321Panic3704006UNINA