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The syntax of class : writing inequality in nineteenth-century America /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lang, Amy Schrager (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."