"Am I a snob?" : modernism and the novel /
Latham, Sean,1971-
Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press,
2003.
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
English fiction
Snobs and snobbishness in literature.
English fiction
Modernism (Literature)
Social classes in literature.