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100 1 $aAnthony, David,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009090745
245 10 $aPaper money men :$bcommerce, manhood, and the sensational public sphere in antebellum America /$cDavid Anthony.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axii, 225 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tFantasies of Treasure in Antebellum Culture -- $gCh. 1.$t"Sleepy Hollow," Gothic Masculinity, and the Panic of 1819 -- $gCh. 2.$tShylock on Wall Street: The Jessica Complex in Antebellum Sensationalism -- $gCh. 3.$tBanking on Emotion: Debt and Male Submission in the Urban Gothic -- $gCh. 4.$tTabloid Manhood, Speculative Femininity -- $gCh. 5.$t"Success" and Race in The House of the Seven Gables -- $tEpilogue: Bartleby's Bank.
520 1 $a"Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America by David Anthony outlines the emergence of a "sensational public sphere" in antebellum America. It argues that this new representational space reflected and helped shape the intricate relationship between commerce and masculine sensibility in a period of dramatic economic upheaval. Looking at a variety of sensational media - from penny press newspapers and pulpy dime novels to the work of well-known writers such as Irving, Hawthorne, and Melville - this book counters the common critical notion that the period's sensationalism addressed a primarily working-class audience. Instead, Paper Money Men shows how a wide variety of sensational media was in fact aimed principally at an emergent class of young professional men. "Paper money men" were caught in the transition from an older and more stable mercantilist economy to a panic-prone economic system centered on credit and speculation. And, Anthony argues, they found themselves reflected in the sensational public sphere, a fantasy space in which new models of professional manhood were repeatedly staged and negotiated. Compensatory in nature, these alternative models of manhood rejected fiscal security and property as markers of a stable selfhood, looking instead toward intangible factors such as emotion and race in an effort to forge a secure sense of manhood in an age of intense uncertainty."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101047
650 0 $aEconomics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040871
650 0 $aMasculinity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006169
650 0 $aMoney in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086801
650 0 $aWealth in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145833
650 0 $aMasculinity$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSensationalism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120038
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