ISBN: 9780807877364

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… Meer...

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! examines how Americans' attitudes toward securities markets, popular investment, and financial catastrophe were entangled with their conceptions of gender, class, crowds, corporations, and history. Zimmerman investigates how writers turned to mob psychology, psychic investigations, and conspiracy discourse to understand not only how financial markets worked, but also how mass acts of financial reading, including novel reading, could trigger economic disaster and cultural chaos. In addition, Zimmerman shows how, by concentrating on markets in crisis, novelists were able to explore the limits of fiction's aesthetic, economic, and ethical capacities. 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. Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction The University of North Carolina Press North American Literary Criticism Frank Norris; Upton Sinclair; Theodore Dreiser; Thomas Lawson; Frederic Isham; Edwin Lefevre; finance fiction; finance novels; Wall Street fiction; The Financier; The Pit; The Moneychangers; Black Friday; Frenzied Finance; Friday, the Thirteenth; stock market; financial panic; financial crisis; economic crisis; panic of 1893; panic of 1907; bank runs; Standard Oil; J. P. Morgan; crowd psychology; gold panic; Paris Commune; Victoria Woodhull 9780807830239, 9780807856871 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Literature, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807877364

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… Meer...

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! examines how Americans' attitudes toward securities markets, popular investment, and financial catastrophe were entangled with their conceptions of gender, class, crowds, corporations, and history. Zimmerman investigates how writers turned to mob psychology, psychic investigations, and conspiracy discourse to understand not only how financial markets worked, but also how mass acts of financial reading, including novel reading, could trigger economic disaster and cultural chaos. In addition, Zimmerman shows how, by concentrating on markets in crisis, novelists were able to explore the limits of fiction's aesthetic, economic, and ethical capacities. 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. Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction The University of North Carolina Press North American Literary Criticism Frank Norris; Upton Sinclair; Theodore Dreiser; Thomas Lawson; Frederic Isham; Edwin Lefevre; finance fiction; finance novels; Wall Street fiction; The Financier; The Pit; The Moneychangers; Black Friday; Frenzied Finance; Friday, the Thirteenth; stock market; financial panic; financial crisis; economic crisis; panic of 1893; panic of 1907; bank runs; Standard Oil; J. P. Morgan; crowd psychology; gold panic; Paris Commune; Victoria Woodhull 9780807830239, 9780807856871 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English, The University of North Carolina Press<

2006, ISBN: 9780807877364

Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street… Meer...

Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), 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! examines how Americans' attitudes toward securities markets, popular investment, and financial catastrophe were entangled with their conceptions of gender, class, crowds, corporations, and history. Zimmerman investigates how writers turned to mob psychology, psychic investigations, and conspiracy discourse to understand not only how financial markets worked, but also how mass acts of financial reading, including novel reading, could trigger economic disaster and cultural chaos. In addition, Zimmerman shows how, by concentrating on markets in crisis, novelists were able to explore the limits of fiction's aesthetic, economic, and ethical capacities. 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. [PU: The University of North Carolina Press], Seiten: 312, The University of North Carolina Press, 2006<

ISBN: 9780807877364

The University of North Carolina Press North American Literary Criticism Frank Norris; Upton Sinclair; Theodore Dreiser; Thomas Lawson; Frederic Isham; Edwin Lefevre; finance fiction; fin… Meer...

The University of North Carolina Press North American Literary Criticism Frank Norris; Upton Sinclair; Theodore Dreiser; Thomas Lawson; Frederic Isham; Edwin Lefevre; finance fiction; finance novels; Wall Street fiction; The Financier; The Pit; The Moneychangers; Black Friday; Frenzied Finance; Friday, the Thirteenth; stock market; financial panic; financial crisis; economic crisis; panic of 1893; panic of 1907; bank runs; Standard Oil; J. P. Morgan; crowd psychology; gold panic; Paris Commune; Victoria Woodhull 9780807830239, UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20061208 English Literature, The University of North Carolina Press<

2006, ISBN: 9780807877364

Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: The University of North Carolina Press], The University of North Carolina Press, 2006