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Vanity Fair
William Thackeray
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Description for Vanity Fair
Paperback. The text of this Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's acclaimed 1848 novel is based on the Garland edition, the text approved by the Modern Language Association. The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by all of the author's original illustrations as well as a textual appendix. Editor(s): Shillingsburg, Peter L. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 896 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 143 x 29. Weight in Grams: 754.
"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 "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception.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 ... Read more
"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 "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
892
Condition
New
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393965957
SKU
V9780393965957
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Ref
99-35
About William Thackeray
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 ... Read more
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