Lang, Amy Schrager

The Syntax of Class - Writing Inequality in Nineteenth Century America

Acknowledgments ix Introduction Class, Classification, and Conflict 1(13) Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests 14(28) Orphaned in America: Color, Class, and Community 42(27) Indexical People: Women, Workers, and the Limits of Literary Language 69(30) Beginning Again: Love, Money, and a Circle of ``Friends'' 99(29) Epilogue 128(3) Notes 131(18) Index 149