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Reviews'...a persuasive set of arguments that
make those of us who think we know Thackeray think again.' -
Richard Pearson, Victorian Studies
DescriptionA Literary life of
William Makepeace Thackeray offers a new perspective on
the relation between Thackeray's life and his novels. It
combines an analysis of his philosophy/religion with his
life's experiences with women and acknowledgements of his
dependence on writing for a livelihood to provide an
explanation for his narrative strategies. Tracing Thackeray's
composition and revision of sample passages demonstrates that
these strategies were conscious developments. Thackeray's
critique of the evils of society focused subtly on
conventional domestic cruelties and on the inequities of the
world of women, but he did so in a way that could be dismissed
and would not necessarily alienate the public upon whose good
will his livelihood depended.
Contents List of
Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Youth
and Family
Gentlemen and Literary Hack
Professional
Writer and Literary Lion
Reading Vanity
Fair
Thackeray's Women
Thackeray's Men
The
Personal in the Roundabout Papers
The Writer and
Illustrator
Personal and Literary
Memorials
Bibliography
Index
Author BiographiesPETER SHILLINGSBURG
is currently Professor of English at the University of North
Texas, USA. He is author of Scholarly Editing in the
Computer Age: Pegasus in Harness, Victorian Publishing and
W.M. Thackeray and Resisting Text: Authority and
Submission in Constructions of Meaning. He has edited the
Thackerary Newsletter for twenty-five
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