Class Mimicry in Stephen Crane's City.

Explores the cultural practices based on class mimicry that flourish in late-nineteenth-century in New York. Representation of the practices in Stephen Crane's book "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; Consideration of the practices as pressed into the service of class formation; Ambiguity on the function of the practices; Use of the term class mimicry to describe the social process which informs consumption.