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Panic! : markets, crises, & crowds in American fiction / David A. Zimmerman.

Author/creator Zimmerman, David A. (David Andrew), 1964-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
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.
Series Cultural studies of the United States
Cultural studies of the United States. ^A241520
Contents Panic and the pétroleuse -- I can do anything with words : Thomas Lawson's frenzied fictions -- Frank Norris and the mesmeric sublime -- Melodrama and the moral implications of financial panic -- The financier and the ends of accounting.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-288) and index.
LCCN 2005035089
ISBN0807830232 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807856878 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807830239
ISBN9780807856871

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