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Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction(Cultural Studies of the United States)

Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction(Cultural Studies of the United States)


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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 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!"" examines how Americans' understandings of and attitudes toward securities markets, popular investment, and financial catastrophe were entangled with their conceptions of gender, class, crowds, and history. 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 reading and popular participation in the corporate transformation of the American economy could trigger financial disaster and cultural chaos. In addition, Zimmerman shows how writers, by experimenting with sensationalism, sympathy, the sublime, melodrama, and naturalism, explored the limits of fiction's aesthetic, economic, and ethical capacities in their portrayals of markets in crisis. With readings of canonical as well as lesser-known novelists, Zimmerman provides an original and wide-ranging analysis of the relation between fiction and financial modernity.

About the Author :
DAVID A. ZIMMERMAN is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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"Panic is filled with keen insights. . . . It importantly resuscitates stories and recasts tropes from early twentieth century America."-Literature & History "A fascinating study. . . . Should be on the reading list not only of Americanists but also of other scholars interested in the intersections of fictional narrative and financial modernity." -- Novel "An inventive and valuable addition to the scholarship addressing the interpenetration of economics and literature specifically and to studies of the modern United States more generally. . . . An imaginative and rich analysis of financial panic's literary coordinates." -- Modern Fiction Studies "Both a valuable contribution to the field and a methodological exemplar for further study. . . . Many studies provide context, but Panic! shifts seamlessly between strict historicism and the innovative, culturally specific histories necessary for a full understanding of the novels Zimmerman discusses. . . . Remarkably deep analyses." -- Studies in American Naturalism "Meticulously researched and equally well-written. . . . Thorough and masterful. . . . Zimmerman himself has scored a victory with this book. Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction is a winner." -- Business History Review "Provides fascinating readings of both forgotten writers and more familiar ones. . . . At the vanguard of an emerging scholarly interest in the culture of the market." -- Journal of American Studies "Provocative and thoughtful. . . . Zimmerman reveals a world of ideas that intellectual and cultural historians will find fascinating. . . . A worthy, fascinating addition to the growing scholarship that seeks to explore and explain the cultural history of capitalism." -- Journal of American History "Rich in the anecdotes and details that capture the cultural context of the decades that straddled the turn of the twentieth century." -- American Historical Review


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  • ISBN-13: 9780807856871
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 378 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0807856878
  • Publisher Date: 29 May 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Series Title: Cultural Studies of the United States
  • Sub Title: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
  • Width: 149 mm


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