William Makepeace Thackeray

Acknowledged, by his contemporaries, as one of the great novelists of the nineteenth century, W. M. Thackeray's critical reputation suffered a marked decline through much of the last century. This book seeks to redress this state of relative neglect by examining a much wider range of writing - from novels to shorter fiction, journalism and criticism - than is customarily familiar to readers of Vanity Fair. The generic and formal diversity of Thackeray's writing is shown to emerge out of the specific material contexts of early to mid-nineteenth century literary culture, primarily the journalistic culture of the periodicals to which he contributed. The book argues, moreover, that the materiality of culture, a recent preoccupation of literary criticism and theory, is one of the most pervasive characteristics of Thackeray's fiction, both as an object of its satire and an aspect of its realism.

General

ISBN		9780746311080
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Northcote House Pub Ltd
Pages		128
List Price		$80.00
Author		Salmon, Richard
Publication Date		07/15/2005
Release Status		In Print
Format		Hardcover
Language		English
Series		Writers and Their Work