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

Informationen zum Autor Lorman A. Ratner was a professor of history! dean of the College of Arts & Sciences! and director of the Center of Multicultural Studies at the University of Tennessee! Knoxville. He died in 2007 as he worked to complete the manuscript for this book. He worked with his wife! Paula T. Kaufman! university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! and with Dwight L. Teeter Jr.! professor of journalism & electronic media at the University of Tennessee. Ratner and Teeter coauthored Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War. Klappentext Examines the intense conflict between financial success and moral righteousness in nineteenth-century America. This study also examines how popular writers and widely read newspapers! magazines! and books expressed social tensions between prosperity and morality. Zusammenfassung Examining the intense conflict between financial success and moral righteousness in nineteenth-century America Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Communicating the Prosperity-Morality Paradox during the Mid-Nineteenth Century Publishing Boom; Chapter 2: New York's Newspaper Giants during the Anxious 1850's; Chapter 3:Two Newspapers! South and West; Chapter 4: Harper's Magazine and The Southern Literary Messenger: Self-Styled; Guardians of the Republic; Chapter 5: Godey's Lady's Book: The Guide for Middle Class Women; Chapter 6: Merchant Magazines: The Businessman's Guide and Conscience; Chapter 7: Women Writers: Defending the Christian Republic; Chapter 8: Male Writers: Wrestling with the Marketplace; Chapter 9: Past Times and Far Away Places; Epilogue

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• Autori: Paula T. Kaufman, Lorman Ratner, Lorman A. Ratner, Lorman A. Kaufman Ratner, Lorman Teeter Ratner, Dwight L. Teeter, Dwight L. Teeter Jr, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
• Editore: University Of Illinois Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.07.2009
• EAN: 9780252034534
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03453-4
• Pagine: 168
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni