Am I a Snob?

by Sean Latham

Book Overview

Is 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488419
• ISBN13: 9780801488412
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher