Panic!
Subtitle: markets, crises, and crowds in American fiction
By: by David A. Zimmerman.
Series: Cultural studies of the United States
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780807830239; 9780807856871
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Financial crises in literature; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Depressions in literature; Popular culture -- United States -- History; Literature and society -- United States -- History; Financial crises -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Panic and the pétroleuse; title: I can do anything with words : Thomas Lawson's frenzied fictions; title: Frank Norris and the mesmeric sublime; title: Melodrama and the moral implications of financial panic; title: The financier and the ends of accounting.