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"Am I a snob?" : modernism and the novel / Sean Latham.
LIBRA PR888.S58 L38 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Latham, Sean, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Snobs and snobbishness in literature.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- Social classes in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- The logic of the pose : Thackeray and the invention of snobbery
- The importance of being a snob : Oscar Wilde's modern pretensions
- Elegy for the snob : Virginia Woolf and the Victorians
- "An aristocrat in writing" : Virginia Woolf and the invention of the modern snob
- A portrait of the snob : James Joyce and the anxieties of cultural capital
- Deadly pretensions : Dorothy L. Sayers and the ends of culture
- The problem of snobbery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080144022X
- 0801488419
- OCLC:
- 50643936
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