Keeping up with the novelists
John Bayley, 20 June 1985
Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class
by P.N. Furbank.
Oxford, 154 pp., £9.50, June 1985,0 19 215955 0 Show More
by P.N. Furbank.
Oxford, 154 pp., £9.50, June 1985,
“... still take a stern view, as once about sex, on the proper way to approach the topic. Dr Paul Fussell, who recently wrote a light-hearted book on the American class system, got some very stuffy reviews. ‘Decent people know about these things but don’t talk about them’ still seems surprisingly the accepted thing, observed in their different ... ”