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Panic! : markets, crises, & crowds in American fiction /

During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, fiction writers published scores of novels that explored the new cultural visibility of Wall Street, high finance, and market crises. Blending literary, historical, and cultural analysis, Zimmerman invest...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zimmerman, David A. (David Andrew), 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Series:Cultural studies of the United States.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.