Autorentext
David Zimmerman is the author of Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction (2006) and his essays have appeared in Cambridge History of the American Novel, American Literature, American Literary History, J19, ESQ, Arizona Quarterly, and elsewhere.

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Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before the Civil War. Focusing on moral complicity, or participation in social evils and political and economic harms, it addresses topics such as slavery, anti-Catholicism, conspiracies, urban exposés, and Black economic enterprise.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Conspiracy, Contagion, and Catholic Sex Talk; 2. Structure, Network, Apocalypse; 3. Systems: Organic Sin; 4. Tolerance Complicity and Uncle Tom's Cabin; 5. Cotton Complicity: Markets and Moral Objects; 6. The Complicity Windfall: The Black Market and African Cotton; 7. The Coffle and the Capitol; 8. Purity Rights and the Congressional Slave Trade; Epilogue.