"Am I a snob?"
"Am I a snob?": modernism and the novel
Sean Latham
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0801488419
LCC: PR888
Edition: (pbk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.
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.
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