LEADER 03244nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910777606903321 005 20230502234503.0 010 $a979-88-908797-9-0 010 $a0-8078-7736-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467161 035 $a(EBL)880482 035 $a(OCoLC)82368778 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000217739 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173297 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217739 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10223404 035 $a(PQKB)11299499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273402 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880482 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467161 100 $a20051201d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPanic! $emarkets, crises, & crowds in American fiction /$fDavid A. Zimmerman 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 1 $aCultural studies of the United States 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5687-8 311 $a0-8078-3023-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-288) and index. 327 $aPanic and the pe?troleuse -- 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. 330 $aDuring the economic depression of the 1890's and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States. Fiction writers published scores of novels in the period that explored this new cultural phenomenon. In Panic!, David A. Zimmerman studies how American novelists and their readers imagined--and in one case, incited--market crashes and financial panics. Panic! examines how Americans' attitudes toward securities markets, popular investment, and financial catastrophe were entangled 410 0$aCultural studies of the United States. 517 3 $aPanic! :$emarkets, crises, and crowds in American fiction 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFinancial crises in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDepressions in literature 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aFinancial crises$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFinancial crises in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDepressions in literature. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 615 0$aFinancial crises$xHistory. 676 $a813/.4093553 700 $aZimmerman$b David A$g(David Andrew),$f1964-$01485083 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777606903321 996 $aPanic$93704006 997 $aUNINA