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Author Templin, Mary, 1959- author.

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

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : The University Alabama Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages .)
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Women authors.
Economics in literature.
Economics in literature.
Financial crises in literature.
Financial crises in literature.
American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American prose literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
United States.
History.
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
Popular culture.
Literature and society -- United States -- History.
Literature and society.
Financial crises -- United States -- History.
Financial crises.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Original 9780817318109 0817318100 (DLC) 2013023599
ISBN 0817387196 (electronic book)
9780817387198 (electronic book)
9780817318109 (hardcover : trade cloth)
0817318100 (hardcover : trade cloth)