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035 _aBNB issue 2328
035 _a(OCoLC)29595842
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_beng
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041 _aeng
050 0 0 _aPR5618
_b.A1 1994
082 0 _a823.8
_bVAN 1994
092 _aD0502455424
100 1 _aThackeray, William Makepeace,
_d1811-1863.
_912436
245 1 0 _aVanity fair :
_ban authoritative text, backgrounds and contents, criticism /
_cWilliam Makepeace Thackeray ; edited by Peter Shillingsburg.
260 _aNew York ;
_aLondon :
_bW.W. Norton,
_c1994.
300 _axvi, 874 p. :
_bill., facsim ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aNorton critical edition
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _tTOC
_aSelected 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.
520 _aSummary: 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.
526 _aEnglish
590 _aTahur Ahmed
650 0 _aWomen
_zEngland
_vFiction.
_93662
651 0 _aEngland
_xSocial life and customs
_y19th century
_vFiction.
_912437
700 1 _aShillingsburg, Peter L.
_912438
830 0 _aNorton critical edition.
_912439
856 _3WorldCat details
_uhttp://www.worldcat.org/title/vanity-fair-an-authoritative-text-backgrounds-and-contents-criticism/oclc/29595842&referer=brief_results
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