The rise and fall of highbrow snobbery as a status marker

Poetics

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 75-92

  Peterson, Richard A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001776264     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-422X(97)00013-2     Document Type: Article

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