The Victorian Journal of Culture and Literature, Fall 2011
The Victorian Journal of Culture and Literature, Fall 2011
The Victorian Journal of Culture and Literature, Fall 2011 number 120, is a special issue marking Thackeray’s bicentenary, and is now available, featuring the following new scholarship:
From Paris to Punch: William Makepeace Thackeray and a New Era in Social Satire by Clare Horrocks and Gary Simons
“Great and Undeniable Likeness”: Portraiture, Legitimacy, and Realism in Thackeray’s The History of Henry Esmond by Carolyn Jacobson
Thackeray and India: Re-examining England’s Narrative of its IndianEmpire by Susan Ray
Bildung by Numbers: Serialization, Readership, and Narrative Form in Thackeray’s Pendennis Novels by Alice Crossley
The Green Silk Purse and Little Rawdon’s Shirt: Sartorial Literacy and Domestic Performance in Vanity Fair by Stephanie Womick
“in company let us hope with better qualities”: Invoked Readers in Vanity Fair by Sean P. O’Brien
Furniture and Domesticity in Vanity Fair by Jennifer Sattaur
The Male Body and Heroic Manhood in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by Nikole King
Vanity Fair’s Ethic of Readerly Emotion by Julia Bninski
’Twas the Night before Waterloo: Narrating the Nation in Vanity Fair by Cheryl Wilson
Book Review by Judith Fisher. Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family, edited by John Aplin
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