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Paradoxes of prosperity : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America
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Paradoxes of prosperity : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America / Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr.
ISBN
9780252034534 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252034538 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xii, 147 p. ; 24 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Communicating the prosperity-morality paradox during the mid-nineteenth-century publishing boom
New York's newspaper giants during the anxious 1850s
Two newspapers, south and west
Harper's magazine and the Southern literary messenger : self-styled guardians of the republic
Godey's lady's book : the guide for middle-class women
Merchant magazines : the businessman's guide and conscience
Women writers : defending the Christian republic
Male writers : wrestling with the marketplace
Past times and faraway places.
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