Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis /

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Templin, Mary, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University Alabama Press, [2014]
Subjects:
1800-1899
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.
Popular culture > United States > History.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Financial crises > United States > History.
Économie politique dans la littérature.
Prose américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American prose literature
American prose literature > Women authors
Economics in literature
Financial crises
Financial crises in literature
Literature and society
Popular culture
Women and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 1830s 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 1850s Labor Problems; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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