1st Edition
Thackeray�s Skeptical Narrative and the �Perilous Trade� of Authorship
By Judith L. Fisher
Copyright 2002
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 nineteenth-century reading practices, as well as... Read more
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.
Biography
Judith L. Fisher
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
