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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

Author: Lorman Ratner; Paula T Kaufman; Dwight L Teeter
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English
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Examines the intense conflict between financial success and moral righteousness in nineteenth-century America. This study also examines how popular writers and widely read newspapers, magazines, and  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lorman Ratner; Paula T Kaufman; Dwight L Teeter
ISBN: 9780252034534 0252034538
OCLC Number: 269282208
Description: xii, 147 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr.

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