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Autore: | Templin Mary <1959-> |
Titolo: | Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis / / Mary Templin ; cover design, Mary Elizabeth Watson |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University Alabama Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/9287 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Classificazione: | LIT004020 |
Altri autori: | WatsonMary Elizabeth |
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"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | Panic fiction |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8719-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828073603321 |
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