Panic Fiction: Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Defining a Genre, Recovering Panic Fiction 1 1 Speculation and Failure: Panic Fiction’s Common Ground 22 2 Domestic Constancy: Preserving Class Identity in 1830s Panic Fiction 61 3 Female “Economists”: Expanding Women’s Financial Agency 106 4 Threats from Outside: Defending the Southern Economy 142 5 Freedom and Order: Proposing Solutions to 1850s Labor Problems 185 Notes 219 Works Cited 233 Index 243 ...