Am I a Snob? : Modernism and the Novel /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Latham, Sean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
1800-1999
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Snobs and snobbishness in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Modernism (Literature)
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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