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Thackeray and form of fiction /

In a critical examination of Thackeray's style, Mr. Loofbourow shows how Thackeray "hybridized" the genre of the romance by adapting the tone and language of the epic, the chivalric romance, and the pastoral, and by carrying parody and satire to a high technical level. Thackeray used...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loofbourow, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1964.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. New Relationships in Style, Form, and Content
  • II. Parody of "Fashionable" Fiction (1837-1848): Vanity Fair
  • III. Parody of Chivalric Romance (1845-1849): Vanity Fair
  • IV. Neoclassical Conventions: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, The Newcomes
  • V. Form, Style, and Content in Vanity Fair
  • VI. Allegorical-Biographical-Historical Epic: Henry Esmond
  • VII. Esmond as Epic
  • VIII. Style and Form in Esmond
  • IX. Style and Content in Esmond
  • Index