Vanity Fair

A Norton Critical Edition

By:

William Thackeray

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Norton Critical Editions

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"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 "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception.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.

Author Biography:

Peter L. Shillingsburg is Professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and William Makepeace Thackeray and Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age. He is the editor of the Garland Press editions of Thackeray's Flore et ZEphyr, Yellowplush, Vanity Fair, and Pendennis as well as Poems of Howell Gwin. Shillingsburg has been visiting professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy and was also a Guggenheim Fellow.

Release date NZ

January 18th, 1995

Author

William Thackeray

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by Peter L. Shillingsburg

Edition

Critical edition

Pages

896

Series

Norton Critical Editions

Dimensions

142x236x25

ISBN-13

9780393965957

Product ID

2487477

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