LEADER 04044nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910172213203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45824-8 010 $a9786612458248 010 $a1-4008-2563-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825639 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006981 035 $a(EBL)483560 035 $a(OCoLC)680040809 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409524 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314018 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409524 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10347704 035 $a(PQKB)10896346 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36357 035 $a(DE-B1597)446496 035 $a(OCoLC)979834705 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825639 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364724 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483560 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006981 100 $a20020806d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe syntax of class $ewriting inequality in nineteenth-century America /$fAmy Schrager Lang 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11389-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [131]-147) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Class, Classification, and Conflict -- $tChapter I. Home, in the Better Sense -- $tChapter II. Orphaned in America -- $tChapter III. Indexical People -- $tChapter IV. Beginning Again -- $tEPILOGUE -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. As new social types emerged at midcentury and, with them, new narratives of success and failure, police and reformers alarmed the public with stories of the rise and proliferation of the "dangerous classes." At the same time, novelists as different as Maria Cummins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Horatio Alger Jr. focused their attention on dense engagements across the lines of class. Turning to the middle-class idea of "home" as a figure for social harmony and to the lexicons of race and gender in their effort to devise a syntax for the representation of class, these writers worked to solve the puzzle of inequity in their putatively classless nation. This study charts the kaleidoscopic substitution of terms through which they rendered class distinctions and follows these renderings as they circulated in and through a wider cultural discourse about the dangers of class conflict. This welcome book is a finely achieved study of the operation of class in nineteenth-century American fiction--and of its entanglements with the languages of race and gender. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aSocial conflict in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aSocial conflict in literature. 676 $a813/.309355 700 $aLang$b Amy Schrager$0870034 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172213203321 996 $aThe syntax of class$91942439 997 $aUNINA