Paradoxes of prosperity : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ratner, Lorman
Other Authors:	Teeter, Dwight L., Jr., 1935-2015, Kaufman, Paula T.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Ethics > United States > History > 19th century. Wealth > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 19th century. Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century. American periodicals > History > 19th century. American newspapers > History > 19th century. Journalism > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. United States > Moral conditions. United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865. United States > Social life and customs > 1783-1865. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.