Book Review: American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture, and the Genteel Tradition by Emily Coit
Coit’s American Snobs explores elitism within academia and its influence on academic discourse, , especially the ‘transatlantic’ variety imported from Europe into the United States during previous centuries.
. But one shortcoming is a missed opportunity to engage with the title of the book itself, in particular its provocative use of the word ‘snob’.