Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History

by Faye Hammill

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 fascinating book Faye Hammill explores how a word that once meant falsification and perversion came to be regarded as signifying discrimination and refinement. Hammill provides a literary, linguistic and cultural route from the Romantics, via the emergence of the Dandy and then of Modernism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846312329
• ISBN13: 9781846312328
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"