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Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power.

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Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: Class, Classification, and Conflict 1 CHAPTER I: Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests 14 CHAPTER II: Orphaned in America: Color, Class, and Community 42 CHAPTER III: Indexical People: Women, Workers, and the Limits of Literary Language 69 CHAPTER IV: Beginning Again: Love, Money, and a Circle of "Friends" 99 EPILOGUE 128 Notes 131 Index 149

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/01/2003
      ISBN13: 9780691113890, 978-0691113890
      ISBN10: 0691113890

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power.

      Trade Review
      One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: Class, Classification, and Conflict 1 CHAPTER I: Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests 14 CHAPTER II: Orphaned in America: Color, Class, and Community 42 CHAPTER III: Indexical People: Women, Workers, and the Limits of Literary Language 69 CHAPTER IV: Beginning Again: Love, Money, and a Circle of "Friends" 99 EPILOGUE 128 Notes 131 Index 149

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