The syntax of class

By Amy Schrager Lang

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

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.