The character described is gently born and enjoys all the grandeurs expected of someone in her social class. |
I would argue that racism is neither reducible to social class or gender nor wholly autonomous. |
But Fielding, as astute an observer of social class as Austen, was actually writing satire. |
It has a character who has had all the erogenous zones of her body enhanced in order to move up the social class system. |
The runners, who collected taxes, delivered communications, and arrested and jailed criminals, belonged to a lower social class. |
Not surprisingly, bigger discrepancies were prevalent in the social class of readers. |