Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis / Mary Templin.

By:

Templin, Mary, 1959- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University Alabama Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (x, 246 pages .)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0817387196
9780817387198

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Panic fiction.DDC classification:

810.9/9287 23

LOC classification:

PS374.E4 T46 2014

Other classification:

LIT004020

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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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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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"-- Provided by publisher.