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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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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.