Class: a guide through the American status system
"Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality ... guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system ... Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom"--Back cover
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- Full title :Class : a guide through the American status system / Paul Fussell ; with illustrations by Martim de Avillez.
Summary
"Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality ... guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system ... Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom"--Back cover
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- Publication Date:copyright ©1983
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Summit Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:copyright ©1983
The Physical Object
- Description:202 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0671449915, 9780671449919
- oclc:ocm09685644
- LC Classification:HN90.S6
- Dewey Decimal:305.5/0973
Table of Contents
A touchy subject -- An anatomy of the classes -- Appearance counts -- Consumption, recreation, bibelots -- The life of the mind -- "Speak, that I may see thee" -- Climbing and sinking, and prole drift -- The X way out -- Appendix: exercises, and the mail bag.
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