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Sunday, January 14, 2007
F****** middlebrow
At the Sunday Times, Rod Liddle rants appealingly against much contemporary literary fiction
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Jenny Davidson
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
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