Thackeray at Work

AvJ. A. Sutherland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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The study of Thackeray’s major fiction reconstructs the novelist’s working methods with the help of manuscript material, much of it previously unpublished. The book’s main argument is directed against the commonplace view that Thackeray was in some way a ‘careless’ artist. Much that appears casual or unpremeditated in his work can in fact be explained by the mode of composition which he developed in response both to the publishing conditions of his age and to his own artistic temperament. An appreciation of Thackeray’s writing habits helps clear up much of the critical confusion which has surrounded his reputation in the last hundred years. A particular feature of interest in the book is the use made of Thackeray’s preparatory working materials. These were widely dispersed after the writer’s death and have never been comprehensively examined.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-07
Mått:158 x 245 x 16 mm
Vikt:240 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
Antal sidor:165
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472509178

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Dr. Sutherland is Reader in English at University College London. He previously lectured at Edinburgh University and has held visiting academic posts in the United States. As well as contributing to many academic journals he has reviewed fiction and literary studies for the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman and published articles on the booktrade in The New Review and New Society. His previous books are Thackeray at Work (1974) and Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976) and he has edited novels boy Trollope and Thackeray for the Penguin English Library.

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List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Vanity Fair The Art of Improvisation2. Pendennis The Two Thackerays and the Limits of Autobiographical Fiction3. Henry Esmond The Virtues of Carelessness4. The Newcomes The Well Planned Baggy Monster5. The Virginians The Worst Novel Anyone Ever Wrote6. Denis Duval The Serialist and the Scholar Appendix One: The Local Plans for Denis DuvalAppendix Two: The Esmond NotebookBibliographyNotesIndex