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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loofbourow, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1964.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Thackeray, William Makepeace, > 1811-1863 > Criticism and interpretation.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, > 1811-1863.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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