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Am I A Snob?: Modernism and the Novel

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Description for Am I A Snob?: Modernism and the Novel Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.

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 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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488412
SKU
V9780801488412
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Ref
99-1

About Sean Latham
Sean Latham is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and Editor of James Joyce Quarterly.

Reviews for Am I A Snob?: Modernism and the Novel
The book is extremely readable, and its subject matter is so that undergraduates as well as the most informed modernist scholars will find it offers original and helpful insights. Latham uses the question Virginia Woolf posed in the title of a paper she delivered privately to her Bloomsbury friends—Am I a snob?—which invites one to become an integral part of ... Read more

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