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Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Vanity Fair : An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contents Criticism, Paperback by Thackeray, William Makepeace; Shillingsburg, Peter L. (EDT), ISBN 0393965953, ISBN-13 9780393965957, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Vanity FairVanity Fair
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393965953
ISBN-139780393965957
eBay Product ID (ePID)143747
Product Key Features
Book TitleVanity Fair
Number of Pages896 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorWilliam Thackeray
Book SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight23.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN93-048019
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume Number0
Dewey Decimal823/.8
Edition DescriptionCritical
Synopsis"Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair . William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide varied perspectives. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included., Backgrounds and Contexts is arranged under three headings. Composition and Publication History combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. Reception reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair 's initial reception. Contexts includes materials relating to governesses, historical novels, the Battle of Waterloo and the military, bankruptcy, regency fashions, and the London landscape, all of which figure prominently in the novel. Criticism is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair . William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide varied perspectives. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included., The text of this Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's acclaimed 1848novel is based on the Garland edition, the text approved by the ModernLanguage Association. The text is fully annotated and is accompanied byall of the author's original illustrations as well as a textualappendix., "Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings. "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception. "Contexts" includes materials relating to governesses, historical novels, the Battle of Waterloo and the military, bankruptcy, regency fashions, and the London landscape, all of which figure prominently in the novel. "Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair. William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide varied perspectives. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
LC Classification NumberPR5618.A1 1994
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