Social class and snobbery
What Social class and snobbery means in English Literature GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The speaker is a pretentious travel snob whose self-important boasting and hypocritical obsession with social status are satirised by the poet.
A key theme, linked to Dickens's critique of Victorian class prejudice and wealth.
Topics that use Social class and snobbery
- Component 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 - Poetry Anthology: Time and Place (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Component 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 - Set Texts: 19th-century novel (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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- Fear and vulnerability in modern travel
- Female autonomy
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