JULIET MCMASTER is Professor of English at the University of Alberta.

‘a welcome contribution to work on a novelist whose reputation has long been bathed in rather equivocal critical light.’ Queen’s Quarterly Thackery emerges clearly as a master of subtle irony psychological penetration, technical expertise, and moral responsibility.’ Victorian Studies‘No serious critic will again be able to dismiss Thackery’s artistry without first countering [Juliet McMaster’s] considerable arguments, and no serious graduate student should be allowed to analyze one of the four novels she discusses without coming to terms with her reading.’ Studies on the Novel

JULIET MCMASTER is Professor of English at the University of Alberta.

‘a welcome contribution to work on a novelist whose reputation has long been bathed in rather equivocal critical light.’ Queen’s Quarterly Thackery emerges clearly as a master of subtle irony psychological penetration, technical expertise, and moral responsibility.’ Victorian Studies‘No serious critic will again be able to dismiss Thackery’s artistry without first countering [Juliet McMaster’s] considerable arguments, and no serious graduate student should be allowed to analyze one of the four novels she discusses without coming to terms with her reading.’ Studies on the Novel

JULIET MCMASTER is Professor of English at the University of Alberta.

‘a welcome contribution to work on a novelist whose reputation has long been bathed in rather equivocal critical light.’ Queen’s Quarterly Thackery emerges clearly as a master of subtle irony psychological penetration, technical expertise, and moral responsibility.’ Victorian Studies‘No serious critic will again be able to dismiss Thackery’s artistry without first countering [Juliet McMaster’s] considerable arguments, and no serious graduate student should be allowed to analyze one of the four novels she discusses without coming to terms with her reading.’ Studies on the Novel