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BL
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988270
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b742640
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| Main Entry
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Zimmerman, David A., (David Andrew),1964-
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| Title & Author
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Panic! : : markets, crises, crowds in American fiction /\ David A. Zimmerman.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2006.
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| Series Statement
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Cultural studies of the United States
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0807877360
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: 142945394X
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: 9780807877364
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: 9781429453943
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0807830232
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0807856878
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9780807830239
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9780807856871
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-288) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Depressions in literature.
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Financial crises in literature.
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Financial crises-- United States-- History.
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Literature and society-- United States-- History.
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Popular culture-- United States-- History.
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American fiction.
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Depressions in literature.
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Financial crises in literature.
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Financial crises.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature and society.
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Popular culture.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.4093553
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| LC Classification
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PS374.E4Z56 2006eb
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