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"Am I a snob?"

modernism and the novel

by Sean Latham

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Subjects

English fiction,History and criticism,Modernism (Literature),Snobs and snobbishness in literature,Social classes in literature,English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century

Book Details

Table of 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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.

Published in

Ithaca [N.Y.]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class

820.9/353

Library of Congress

PR888.S58 L38 2003, PR888.S58L38 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination

xii, 240 p. :

Number of pages

240

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