Paradoxes of prosperity : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America /
Ratner, Lorman.
Kaufman, Paula T.
Teeter, Dwight L.
Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-142) and index.
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.
Journalism
American newspapers
American periodicals
Books and reading
Publishers and publishing
Wealth
Ethics