Panic Fiction Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis.
Title:
Panic Fiction Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis.
Author:
Templin, Mary.
ISBN:
9780817387198
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Publication Information:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
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.
Abstract:
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. Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors such as Hannah Lee, Catharine Sedgwick, Eliza Follen, Maria McIntosh, and Maria Cummins wrote dozens of novels and stories depicting the effects of financial panic on the home and proposing solutions to economic instability. This unique body of antebellum American women's writing, which.
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