Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
(Part of the Cultural Studies of the United States Series)
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During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States. Fiction writers published scores of novels in the period that explored this new cultural phenomenon. In Panic , David A. Zimmerman studies how American novelists and their readers imagined--and in one case, incited--market crashes and financial panics. Panic...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807830232
ISBN13:9780807830239
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:0.06 lbs.
Dimensions:5.5" x 8.5"
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