Vanity fair :
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Vanity fair : an authoritative text, backgrounds and contents, criticism / William Makepeace Thackeray ; edited by Peter Shillingsburg. - New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 1994. - xvi, 874 p. : ill., facsim ; 24 cm. - Norton critical edition . - Norton critical edition. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Selected letters: To Mrs. Carmichael-Smyth, July 2, 1847, To the Duke of Devonshire, May 1, 1848, to Miss Smith, June 6, 1848 / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Introduction to Vanity fair / Anne Thackeray Ritchie --
Originals / Gordon Ray --
The discipline and significance of form in Vanity fair / Edgar F. Harden --
Philosophy and narrative technique / Geoffrey Tillotson --
The trade of literature / Peter L. Shillingsburg --
Reception summary / Robert A. Colby --
Thackeray's writings / Abraham Hayward --
Selected letters: To W. S. Williams, March 29, 1848, To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848 / Charlotte Bronte --
Letter to George Henry Lewes, March 6, 1848 / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Review / Robert Bell --
Letter to Robert Bell, September 3, 1848 / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Preface to the second edition of Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte --
Review / Elizabeth Rigby --
A pretty fellow --
Wanted a governess, on handsome terms --
Female accomplishments, etc. / Maria Edgeworth --
Propriety and the novel / Kathleen Tillotson --
Vanity fair and the London skyline / Joan Stevens --
Victor Cousin and the foundation for an Edifice of humanity / Robert A. Colby --
William Makepeace Thackeray / William C. Brownell --
A criticism of life / David Cecil --
On the style of Vanity fair / G. Armour Craig --
Neo-classical conventions / John Loffbourow --
Dialogic form / Peter K. Garrett --
Politics of sexuality / Richard Barikman, Susan MacDonald, and Myra Stark --
The narrator of Vanity fair / Ina Ferris --
Didacticism / Catherine Peters --
Vanity fair: listening as a rhetorician --
and a feminist / James Phelan. TOC
Summary:
The story of English society in the Napoleonic Wars and the early nineteenth century as told through the characters of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
0393965953 9780393965957
93-48019
Women--England--Fiction.
England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
PR5618 / .A1 1994
823.8 / VAN 1994
Vanity fair : an authoritative text, backgrounds and contents, criticism / William Makepeace Thackeray ; edited by Peter Shillingsburg. - New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 1994. - xvi, 874 p. : ill., facsim ; 24 cm. - Norton critical edition . - Norton critical edition. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Selected letters: To Mrs. Carmichael-Smyth, July 2, 1847, To the Duke of Devonshire, May 1, 1848, to Miss Smith, June 6, 1848 / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Introduction to Vanity fair / Anne Thackeray Ritchie --
Originals / Gordon Ray --
The discipline and significance of form in Vanity fair / Edgar F. Harden --
Philosophy and narrative technique / Geoffrey Tillotson --
The trade of literature / Peter L. Shillingsburg --
Reception summary / Robert A. Colby --
Thackeray's writings / Abraham Hayward --
Selected letters: To W. S. Williams, March 29, 1848, To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848 / Charlotte Bronte --
Letter to George Henry Lewes, March 6, 1848 / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Review / Robert Bell --
Letter to Robert Bell, September 3, 1848 / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Preface to the second edition of Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte --
Review / Elizabeth Rigby --
A pretty fellow --
Wanted a governess, on handsome terms --
Female accomplishments, etc. / Maria Edgeworth --
Propriety and the novel / Kathleen Tillotson --
Vanity fair and the London skyline / Joan Stevens --
Victor Cousin and the foundation for an Edifice of humanity / Robert A. Colby --
William Makepeace Thackeray / William C. Brownell --
A criticism of life / David Cecil --
On the style of Vanity fair / G. Armour Craig --
Neo-classical conventions / John Loffbourow --
Dialogic form / Peter K. Garrett --
Politics of sexuality / Richard Barikman, Susan MacDonald, and Myra Stark --
The narrator of Vanity fair / Ina Ferris --
Didacticism / Catherine Peters --
Vanity fair: listening as a rhetorician --
and a feminist / James Phelan. TOC
Summary:
The story of English society in the Napoleonic Wars and the early nineteenth century as told through the characters of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
0393965953 9780393965957
93-48019
Women--England--Fiction.
England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
PR5618 / .A1 1994
823.8 / VAN 1994