The syntax of class
"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.
Literature and societySocial classes in literatureHistory and criticismSex role in literatureSocial conflict in literatureRace in literatureAmerican fictionHistoryAmerican fiction, history and criticism, 19th century