Bad form

Kent Puckett

earliest edition we have, 2008 Oxford University Press, 2008 177 pages

"What - other than embarrassment - could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? Bad Form argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake - the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas - is a figure of critical importance to the nineteenth-century novel." "With significant new readings of a number of nineteenth-century works - such a...

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Bad Form paperback · 2013 · Oxford University Press, Usa · 192 pages · 9780199948536
Bad Form edition · 2009 · Oxford University Press · 9781281851925
Bad form edition · 2008 · Oxford University Press · 177 pages · 9780195332759
Bad Form edition · 2008 · Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780199715701

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