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Paradoxes of prosperity : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America
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- Creator
- Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xii, 147 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1283582953, 9786613895400, 0252092228, 9780252092220, 0252034538, 9780252034534
- OCLC
- ocn811409087, ocn923494589, ocn269282208
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-142) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- American newspapers -- History -- 19th century.
- American periodicals -- History -- 19th century.
- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Wealth -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
- United States -- Moral conditions.