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.
Paradoxes of prosperity : wealth-seeking versus Christian values in pre-Civil War America by Lorman Ratner. ISBN 9780252034534. Published by University of Illinois Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.