Sophistication
Subtitle: A Literary and Cultural History
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781846312328
Subjects: Culture
Description: 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 book Faye Hammill explores how a word that once meant falsification and perversion came to be regarded as signifying discrimination and refinement.