Panic! : markets, crises, & crowds in American fiction / / David A. Zimmerman

• Autore: Zimmerman David A (David Andrew), <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.4093553
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Financial crises in literature; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Depressions in literature; Popular culture - United States - History; Literature and society - United States - History; Financial crises - United States - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-288) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 entangled
• Altri titoli varianti: Panic! : markets, crises, and crowds in American fiction
• Titolo autorizzato: Panic
• ISBN: 979-88-908797-9-0; 0-8078-7736-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777606903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies of the United States.