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Author Ratner, Lorman.

Title Paradoxes of prosperity : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America / Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 147 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-142) and index.
Contents Communicating the prosperity-morality paradox during the mid-nineteenth-century publishing boom -- New York's newspaper giants during the anxious 1850s -- Two newspapers, south and west -- Harper's magazine and the Southern literary messenger : self-styled guardians of the republic -- Godey's lady's book : the guide for middle-class women -- Merchant magazines : the businessman's guide and conscience -- Women writers : defending the Christian republic -- Male writers : wrestling with the marketplace -- Past times and faraway places.
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Subject Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Journalism -- Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American newspapers -- History -- 19th century.
American newspapers.
American periodicals -- History -- 19th century.
American periodicals.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Books and reading.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Publishers and publishing.
Wealth -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Wealth -- Social aspects.
Wealth.
Ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Ethics.
United States -- Moral conditions.
Moral conditions.
Chronological Term 1783-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Kaufman, Paula T.
Teeter, Dwight L., Jr., 1935-2015.
Other Form: Print version: Ratner, Lorman. Paradoxes of prosperity. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009 9780252034534 (DLC) 2008047506 (OCoLC)269282208
ISBN 9780252092220 (electronic book)
0252092228 (electronic book)
9780252034534
0252034538