"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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