Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The New Book of Snobs
Author: D.J. Taylor
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472123956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob. Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's door in the early twenty-first century is to suggest that they happen to be a snob. But what constitutes snobbishness? Who are the snobs and where are they to be found? Are you a snob? Am I? What are the distinguishing marks? Snobbery is, in fact, one of the keys to contemporary British life, as vital to the backstreet family on benefits as the proprietor of the grandest stately home, and an essential element of their view of who of they are and what the world might be thought to owe them. The New Book of Snobs will take a marked interest in language, the vocabulary of snobbery - as exemplified in the 'U' and 'Non U' controversy of the 1950s - being a particular field in which the phenomenon consistently makes its presence felt, and alternate social analysis with sketches of groups and individuals on the Thackerayan principle. Prepare to meet the Political Snob, the City Snob, the Technology Snob, the Property Snob, the Rural Snob, the Literary Snob, the Working-class Snob, the Sporting Snob, the Popular Cultural Snob and the Food Snob.
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472123956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob. Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's door in the early twenty-first century is to suggest that they happen to be a snob. But what constitutes snobbishness? Who are the snobs and where are they to be found? Are you a snob? Am I? What are the distinguishing marks? Snobbery is, in fact, one of the keys to contemporary British life, as vital to the backstreet family on benefits as the proprietor of the grandest stately home, and an essential element of their view of who of they are and what the world might be thought to owe them. The New Book of Snobs will take a marked interest in language, the vocabulary of snobbery - as exemplified in the 'U' and 'Non U' controversy of the 1950s - being a particular field in which the phenomenon consistently makes its presence felt, and alternate social analysis with sketches of groups and individuals on the Thackerayan principle. Prepare to meet the Political Snob, the City Snob, the Technology Snob, the Property Snob, the Rural Snob, the Literary Snob, the Working-class Snob, the Sporting Snob, the Popular Cultural Snob and the Food Snob.
The Book of Snobs
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1609771974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This humorous study begins with the assertion that 'Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science'
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1609771974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This humorous study begins with the assertion that 'Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science'
Illustrated Catalogue of Books ... 1903-1904 ...
Author: A.C. McClurg & Co
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
The Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The works [or rather the Waverley novels] of sir Walter Scott
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Catalogue of Books on European History, Literature, Linguistics, Shipbuilding and Navigation, Theology, Voyages and Geography
Author: Martinus Nijhoff
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401529213
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401529213
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The American Bibliopolist
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1850
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1850
Book Description
Catalogue of books in the lending department of the public library, Buckingham palace road
Author: London St. George, Hanover sq, publ. libr
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday
Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description