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William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
Peter L. Shillingsburg
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Description for William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
Paperback. This text shows how Thackeray's own life shaped his novels. It analyzes his philosophy and religion along with his experiences with women, and his acknowledgements of his dependence on writing for a livelihood, to provide an explanation for his narrative strategies. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
A 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 ... Read more
A 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Literary Lives
Number of Pages
163
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333650936
SKU
V9780333650936
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About Peter L. Shillingsburg
PETER 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 years.
Reviews for William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
'...a persuasive set of arguments that make those of us who think we know Thackeray think again.' - Richard Pearson, Victorian Studies