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_aLatham, Sean _eautore |
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_aAm I a Snob? : _bModernism and the Novel / _cSean Latham. |
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_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2018] |
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_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tILLUSTRATIONS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tIntroduction -- _tPART ONE: A GENEALOGY OF SNOBBERY -- _tCHAPTER ONE. The Logic of the Pose: Thackeray and the Invention of Snobbery -- _tCHAPTER TWO. The Importance of Being a Snob: Oscar Wilde's Modern Pretensions -- _tPART TWO: THE WORK OF SNOBBERY -- _tCHAPTER THREE. Elegy for the Snob: Virginia Woolf and the Victorians -- _tCHAPTER FOUR. "An Aristocrat in Writing": Virginia Woolf and the Invention of the Modern Snob -- _tCHAPTER FIVE. A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital -- _tCHAPTER SIX. Deadly Pretensions: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Ends of Culture -- _tCHAPTER SEVEN. The Problem of Snobbery -- _tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- _tINDEX |
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| 520 | _aIs there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution of the figure of the snob through the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Sayers. Each of these writers played a distinctive role in the transformation of the literary snob from a vulgar social climber into a master of taste. In the process, some novelists and their works became emblems of sophistication, treated as if they were somehow apart from or above the fiction of the popular marketplace, while others found a popular audience. Latham argues that both coterie writers like Joyce and popular novelists like Sayers struggled desperately to combat their own pretensions. By portraying snobs in their novels, they attempted to critique and even transform the cultural and economic institutions that they felt isolated them from the broad readership they desired.Latham regards the snobbery that emerged from and still clings to modernism not as an unfortunate by-product of aesthetic innovation, but as an ongoing problem of cultural production. Drawing on the tools and insights of literary sociology and cultural studies, he traces the nineteenth-century origins of the "snob," then explores the ways in which modernist authors developed their own snobbery as a means of coming to critical consciousness regarding the connections among social, economic, and cultural capital. The result, Latham asserts, is a modernism directly engaged with the cultural marketplace yet deeply conflicted about the terms of its success. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | _aIn English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) | |
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_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. |
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_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. |
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_aModernism (Literature) _zGreat Britain. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aSnobs and snobbishness in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aSocial classes in literature. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aCultural Studies. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aLiterary Studies. | |
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