Social Climbing in a Changing World. Snobbism in the European Literature: readings
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Lluís Quintana Trias, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Students will have access to a course pack with the texts under discussion. They can have also access to those that are in the public domain at the address http://dewey.uab.es/llquintana
- Stendhal. The Red and the Black. A Chronicle of 1830. (1831) (Original in French) (New York: Modern Library, 2003)
- Honoré de Balzac. Father Goriot. (1835) (Original in French) (Philadelphia: Gebbie, 1898)
- William Makepeace Thackeray. The Book of Snobs (By One of Themselves). (1848) (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978)
- Charles Dickens. David Copperfield. (1849-1850) (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1998)
- Benito Pérez Galdós. Torquemada. (1889) (Original in Spanish) (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
- Thorstein Veblen. The Theory of the Leisure Class; an economic study of institutions. (1899) (New York: New American Library, 1953)
- Marcel Proust. The Guermantes Way. (1920) from Remembrance of things past. (1913-1927) (Original in French) (New York: Random House, 1960)
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The Leopard. (1958) (Original in Italian) (New York: New American Library, 1961)
