"Am I a Snob?":
Modernism and the Novel
Cornell
University Press, 2003
cloth, $45.00 or paper, $19.95
cloth, $45.00 or paper, $19.95
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I: A Genealogy of Snobbery
1. The Logic of the Pose: Thackeray and the Invention of Snobbery
2. The Importance of Being a Snob: Oscar Wilde's Modern Pretensions
Section II: The Work of Snobbery
3. Elegy for the Snob: Virginia Woolf and the Victorians
4. "An Aristocrat in Writing": Virginia Woolf and the Invention of the Modern Snob
5. A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital
6. Deadly Pretensions: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Ends of Culture
7. The Problem of Snobbery
Bibliography
Index