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The Syntax of Class. Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-century America.
Amy Schrager Lang
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Paperback. Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 struggled to find social taxonomies to capture apparent inequalities of wealth and power. This study charts the terms through which these writers rendered class distinctions. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263.
Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture - and manage - increasingly apparent inequalities of wealth and power. As new social types emerged, and with them, new narratives of success and failure, police and reformers became weary of the ""dangerous classes,"" while novelists as different as Maria Cummins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Horatio Alger, Jr., focused their attention on engagements across the lines of class. Writers turned to the middle-class idea of ""home"" as a figure ... Read more
Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture - and manage - increasingly apparent inequalities of wealth and power. As new social types emerged, and with them, new narratives of success and failure, police and reformers became weary of the ""dangerous classes,"" while novelists as different as Maria Cummins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Horatio Alger, Jr., focused their attention on engagements across the lines of class. Writers turned to the middle-class idea of ""home"" as a figure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472031818
SKU
V9780472031818
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About Amy Schrager Lang
Amy Schrager Lang is Professor of English at Syracuse University.
Reviews for The Syntax of Class. Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-century America.
Lang's ability to move seamlessly between author and character, and her insistence on the relevance of class to both, offer an entirely new window into 19th-century literature. - Women's Review of Books ""Lang reveals how the ever-shifting problems of class identity in the United States can provide sophisticated structures for literary analysis. The result is an extremely well-written, solid, and ... Read more