Am I a Snob? : : Modernism and the Novel / / Sean Latham.
Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 halftone, 6 line drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- PART ONE: A GENEALOGY OF SNOBBERY
- CHAPTER ONE. The Logic of the Pose: Thackeray and the Invention of Snobbery
- CHAPTER TWO. The Importance of Being a Snob: Oscar Wilde's Modern Pretensions
- PART TWO: THE WORK OF SNOBBERY
- CHAPTER THREE. Elegy for the Snob: Virginia Woolf and the Victorians
- CHAPTER FOUR. "An Aristocrat in Writing": Virginia Woolf and the Invention of the Modern Snob
- CHAPTER FIVE. A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital
- CHAPTER SIX. Deadly Pretensions: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Ends of Culture
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Problem of Snobbery
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX