'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital and the Greatness of 'The Great Gatsby'

John Guillory is Julius Silver Professor Emeritus of English, New York University, and the author of 'Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History' (1983), 'Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation' (1993; expanded edition, 2023), 'Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study' (2022) and, most recently, 'On Close Reading' (2025).

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