The syntax of class

By Amy Schrager Lang

Subjects: American fiction, Race in literature, Social conflict in literature, History and criticism, American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, History, Literature and society, Sex role in literature, Social classes 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.