Thackeray's major novels : a study in the context of their contemporary reception

This study explores the relationship between Thackeray's novels and what contemporary critics made of them, in the context of the gradual displacement of an "idealist" by a "realist" bias in critical assumptions. Chapter One analyses the reception of Vanity Fair and conclude...

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Main Author: Potter, N. H.
Published: Swansea University 1978
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638559