Thackeray the Writer

Pendennis to Denis Duval
1998
ISBN: 978-0-312-22929-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

This book conveys Thackeray's development as a novelist, lecturer in Great Britain and the United States, familiar essayist, and shaper of cultural awareness as editor of a major new journal - a development especially growing out of the achievement of Vanity Fair, where he has so powerfully articulated the comical and absurd system of forces defining the human existence that he and his readers shared. Articulating the connections among Thackeray's varied work and activities, Harden reveals the broadening imaginative growth and deepening understanding of a supremely insightful perceiver and critic of human life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harden, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface List of Abbreviations The History of Pendennis The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and the History of Henry Esmond The Newcomes The Four Georges and The Virginians Lovel the Widower The Adventures of Philip Roundabout Papers Denis Duval Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edgar F. Harden received the AB degree from Princeton University and the AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Since 1966 he has taught at Simon Fraser University, where he is Emeritus Professor of English. He has published on Browning, Trollope and especially Thackeray in journals that include and He is also the author of and ; and and he has edited , and . He has been awarded fellowships and research grants by the Canada Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.