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

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations Series Cultural studies of the United States Cultural studies of the United States. 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 Summary During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, fiction writers published scores of novels that explored the new cultural visibility of Wall Street, high finance, and market crises. Blending literary, historical, and cultural analysis, Zimmerman investigates how writers turned to fledgling research in mob psychology, psychic investigations, and conspiracy discourse to understand how mass acts of financial reading and popular participation in the corporate transformation of the American economy could trigger financial disaster and cultural chaos Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-288) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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 LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Depressions in literature Financial crises Financial crises in literature Literature and society Popular culture Bevölkerung Finanzlage Krise Motiv Literatur 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 Amerikansk litteratur -- historia -- 1800-talet. Amerikansk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet. Finanskriser i litteraturen. Litteratur och samhälle -- historia -- Förenta staterna. Krise <Motiv> United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2005035089 ISBN 9780807877364 0807877360 9781429453943 142945394X 9798890879790

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