The syntax of class writing inequality in nineteenth-century America - Lang, Amy Schrager (Princeton University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-147) and index
Introduction : Class, Classification, and Conflict -- Home, in the Better Sense : The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests -- Orphaned in America : Color, Class, and Community -- Indexical People : Women, Workers, and the Limits of Literary Language -- Beginning Again : Love, Money, and a Circle of "Friends"
"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."--Jacket