Title: Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis /
Authors: Templin, Mary, 1959-
Year: 2014
Subjects: American prose literature Women authors History and criticism.; Economics in literature.; Financial crises in literature.; American prose literature History and criticism.; Women and literature United States History; Popular culture United States History; Literature and society United States History.; Financial crises United States History.; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.; American prose literature; American prose literature Women authors; Economics; Financial crises; Literature; Literature and society; Popular culture; Women and literature; United States
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"--
Contents: Defining a Genre, Recovering Panic Fiction -- Speculation and Failure: Panic Fiction's Common Ground -- Domestic Constancy: Preserving Class Identity in 1830s Panic Fiction -- Female "Economists": Expanding Women's Financial Agency -- Threats from Outside: Defending the Southern Economy -- Freedom and Order: Proposing Solutions to 1850s Labor Problems.