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Sophistication : a literary and cultural history /

In an era obsessed with celebrity and glamour, 'sophistication' has come to be perceived as the most desirable of human qualities; but it was not always so. In this fascinating book Faye Hammill explores how a word that once meant falsification and perversion came to be regarded as signify...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hammill, Faye (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2010]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reading sophistication
  • Scandal, sentiment and shepherdesses: the emergence of modern sophistication
  • Childhood, consumption and decadence: Victorian and Edwardian sophistication
  • Melancholy, modernity and the middlebrow: the twenties and thirties
  • Nostalgia, glamour and excess: the postwar decades
  • Conclusion: 'the problem of leisure': millennial sophistication.