The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America (Class : Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: November 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780472031818
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; United States - 19th Century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; Literary Criticism; English; USA; Literature and society; American - General; Social Classes; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American fiction; 19th century; History and criticism; Social classes in literature; United States
First sentence: IN 1850, New York's first chief of police, George Matsell, announced that he had uncovered a "deplorable and growing evil."