Paradoxes of Prosperity: Wealth Seeking in Pre-Civil War America

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword / xi Acknowledgments / xiii Introduction / 1 1. Communicating the Prosperity-Morality Paradox during the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Publishing Boom / 9 2. New York’s Newspaper Giants during the Anxious 1850s / 19 3. Two Newspapers, South and West / 34 4. Harper’s Magazine and the Southern Literary Messenger: Self-Styled Guardians of the Republic / 47 5. Godey’s Lady’s Book: The Guide for Middle-Class Women / 63 6. Merchant Magazines: The Businessman’s Guide and Conscience / 72 7. Women Writers: Defending the Christian Republic / 85 8. Male Writers: Wrestling with the Marketplace / 97 9. Past Times and Faraway Places / 111 Epilogue / 125 Notes / 129 Index / 143 ...