Format:
XII, 240 S
,
Ill
ISBN:
080144022X
,
0801488419
Series Statement:
Cornell paperbacks
Note:
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Snob
;
Roman
;
Geschichte 1850-1940
;
Englisch
;
Roman
;
Snob
;
Geschichte 1845-1940
;
Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863
;
Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900
;
Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941
;
Joyce, James 1882-1941
;
Sayers, Dorothy L. 1893-1957
;
Snob