Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
The History of Pendennis * The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century and The History of Henry Esmond * The New Comes * The Four Georges and The Virginians * Lovel the Widower * The Adventures of Philip * Roundabout Papers * Denis Duval