"Am I a snob?"
Subtitle: modernism and the novel
By: Sean Latham.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Snobs and snobbishness in literature.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Social classes in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: The logic of the pose : Thackeray and the invention of snobbery; title: The importance of being a snob : Oscar Wilde's modern pretensions; title: Elegy for the snob : Virginia Woolf and the Victorians; title: "An aristocrat in writing" : Virginia Woolf and the invention of the modern snob; title: A portrait of the snob : James Joyce and the anxieties of cultural capital; title: Deadly pretensions : Dorothy L. Sayers and the ends of culture; title: The problem of snobbery.