Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
Summary:
"Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women's writing that illuminates women's relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class"-- Provided by publisher.
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