| The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social classes in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Social conflict in literature; Sex role in literature; Race in literature; 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. Amy Schrager Lang teaches American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England . |