Book Description
This book conveys Thackeray's development as a novelist, lecturer, familiar essayist, and shaper of cultural awareness in writing Vanity Fair, where he had so powerfully articulated the comical and absurd system of forces defining the human existence that he and his readers shared. Examining the connections among Thackeray's varied works and activities, Harden reveals the broadening imaginative growth and deepening understanding of a supremely insightful perceiver and critic of human life.


About the Author
Edgar F. Harden is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In Thackeray the Writer: From Journalism to 'Vanity Fair' Edgar Harden traced the emergence of Thackeray's writing career from its early roots in journalism to the achievement of Vanity Fair. In this the sequel volume, Edgar Harden conveys Thackeray's continuing development as a novelist, lecturer in Great Britain and the United States, familiar essayist, and shaper of cultural awareness as editor of a major new journal. He shows how this new phase in Thackeray's career grew out of the achievement of Vanity Fair.

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