Thackeray: A Collection of Critical Essays
ISBN-13:
9780139129490
ISBN-10:
0139129499
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Welsh
Publication date:
1968
Publisher:
Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson Education)
Format:
Paperback
184 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780139129490
ISBN-10:
0139129499
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Welsh
Publication date:
1968
Publisher:
Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson Education)
Format:
Paperback
184 pages
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Thackeray: A Collection of Critical Essays (ISBN-13: 9780139129490 and ISBN-10: 0139129499), written by authors
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William Makepeace Thackeray, author of The Book of Snobs, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, and The Newcomes, was a controversial figure even at the height of his popularity. Critics responded to him with hostility or high esteem, never indifference. In the 1850's, for example, Henry James, Sr., argued that Thackeray had "no ideas," and was "merely a sounding-board against which his experiences thump and resound." Yet George Eliot called Thackeray "the most powerful of living novelists," and author G.K. Chesterton, a contributor to this volume, notes that "Thackeray is always interesting; even in the passages which are bad."As the essays in this book show, Thackeray was a brilliant master of language whose "chaotic" narrative structure and neoclassical conventions are only imperfectly understood. The contributors present the modern issues surrounding this defiant, often self-conscious prose artist who once wrote of himself: "I take a sort of pleasure in saying destructive things...in a good humoured jolly way."
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