The syntax of class
Subtitle: writing inequality in nineteenth-century America
By: Amy Schrager Lang.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social classes in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Social conflict in literature; Sex role in literature; Race in literature
Description: "The Syntax of Class explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture - and manage - increasingly apparent inequalities of wealth and power."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-147) and index.