Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship

ISBN-13: 9780367887728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

Judith L. Fisher

Opis

Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship makes a substantial contribution to nineteent

Recenzje

Judith L. Fisher [...] contributes a fascinating book that encompasses Thackeray's familiar texts [...] as well as the later novels... Her comprehensive attention to Thackeray's narrative technique in the novels results in an important contribution to scholars interested in any of his elusive narrators.' Victorian Periodicals Review

Spis treści

Contents:The hermeneutic of skepticism;The "Right Line I": Narratorial collusion and the perils of "Sternism"; A version of a "Man and a Brother": Or, character into narrator; The rebellious text and the resisting reader; The secret history of Henry Esmond; Infinite isolations; "The Abode of Bliss and the Halls of Prismatic Splendour"; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Judith L. Fisher