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At Vanity Fair : from Bunyan to Thackeray / Kirsty Milne.
Van Pelt Library PR830.M475 M55 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milne, Kirsty, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphor in literature.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's progress.
- Bunyan, John.
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Vanity fair.
- Thackeray, William Makepeace.
- Pilgrim's progress (Bunyan, John).
- Vanity fair (Thackeray, William Makepeace).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to William Makepeace Thackeray's own Vanity Fair (1847-8). It explores the influence of anonymous journalists and booksellers alongside well-known authors including Ben Jonson, Samuel Richardson and Thomas Carlyle. Over time, Bunyan's dystopian fantasy has been altered and repurposed to characterise consumer capitalism, channelling memories that inform and unsettle modern hedonism. By tracking the idea of 'Vanity Fair' against this shifting background, the book illuminates the relationship between the individual and the collective imagination, between what is culturally available and what is creatively impelled"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the boy at the Royal Exchange; 1. 'Copying from life': the literal and the literary in Bunyan's Vanity Fair; 2. Reforming Bartholomew Fair: Bunyan, Jonson, and the transmission of a trope; 3. 'More moderate now than formerly': re-writing Vanity Fair, 1684-1700; 4. 'Gay ideas of Vanity-Fair': transforming Bunyan in the eighteenth century; 5. 'Manager of the performance': Thackeray's Vanity Fair; Conclusion: the fair in vogue; Afterword Sharon Achinstein.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107105850
- 1107105854
- OCLC:
- 899949287
- Online:
- Cover image
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