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Templin carefully delineates issues of race, class, gender, and geography in these women's novels, making important distinctions between northern and southern panic fiction. Templin's prose is accessible, and her persuasive argument emerges from considerable literary, historical, and economic research. -- CHOICE

Together with her striking archive and her clear and compelling claims about its cultural work, Templin's thorough historical grounding makes Panic Fiction a valuable addition to the study of antebellum economic and domestic literature. --LEGACY Templin's argument that panic--as a phenomenon inherently disruptive to the regular functioning of the market--authorized women authors' engagement in the predominantly male economic debates of the time is astute and richly suggestive. Templin does a fine job of bringing wide-ranging historical scholarship on antebellum class relations and working-class culture to bear on the cultural representations she examines. --Lori Merish, author of Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature This is an original and engaging study. Based on extensive historical research and an illuminating interaction with recent scholarship on both women's fiction and the 'new economic criticism, ' it will be of use to scholars, in a variety of fields, from literature to women's studies to American history. --David Anthony, author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America Templin carefully delineates issues of race, class, gender, and geography in these women's novels, making important distinctions between northern and southern panic fiction. Templin's prose is accessible, and her persuasive argument emerges from considerable literary, historical, and economic research. --CHOICE Mary Templin's Panic Fiction: Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis analyzes antebellum novels about economic crisis to uncover the ways middle-class white women regarded the financial catastrophes that struck the nation during the early decades of the nineteenth century. In doing so, Templin makes important and interesting contributions to economic history, gender history, and the history of popular culture. --Journal of Southern History

"""Templin carefully delineates issues of race, class, gender, and geography in these women's novels, making important distinctions between northern and southern panic fiction. Templin's prose is accessible, and her persuasive argument emerges from considerable literary, historical, and economic research."" --CHOICE ""Mary Templin's Panic Fiction: Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis analyzes antebellum novels about economic crisis to uncover the ways middle-class white women regarded the financial catastrophes that struck the nation during the early decades of the nineteenth century. In doing so, Templin makes important and interesting contributions to economic history, gender history, and the history of popular culture."" --Journal of Southern History ""This is an original and engaging study. Based on extensive historical research and an illuminating interaction with recent scholarship on both women's fiction and the 'new economic criticism, ' it will be of use to scholars, in a variety of fields, from literature to women's studies to American history."" --David Anthony, author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America ""Together with her striking archive and her clear and compelling claims about its cultural work, Templin's thorough historical grounding makes Panic Fiction a valuable addition to the study of antebellum economic and domestic literature."" --LEGACY ""Templin's argument that panic--as a phenomenon inherently disruptive to the regular functioning of the market--authorized women authors' engagement in the predominantly male economic debates of the time is astute and richly suggestive. Templin does a fine job of bringing wide-ranging historical scholarship on antebellum class relations and working-class culture to bear on the cultural representations she examines."" --Lori Merish, author of Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature"

This is an original and engaging study. Based on extensive historical research and an illuminating interaction with recent scholarship on both women's fiction and the 'new economic criticism, ' it will be of use to scholars, in a variety of fields, from literature to women's studies to American history. --David Anthony, author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America

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Mary Templin is an associate lecturer in the Honors College, University of Toledo, USA.

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