Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Defining a Genre, Recovering Panic Fiction
1. Speculation and Failure: Panic Fiction’s Common Ground
2. Domestic Constancy: Preserving Class Identity in 1830s Panic Fiction
3. Female “Economists”: Expanding Women’s Financial Agency
4. Threats from Outside: Defending the Southern Economy
5. Freedom and Order: Proposing Solutions to 1850s Labor Problems
Notes
Works Cited
Index