Thackeray's cultural frame of reference : allusion in The Newcomes

Author(s)

• McMaster, Rowland

Bibliographic Information

Thackeray's cultural frame of reference : allusion in The Newcomes

R.D. McMaster

Macmillan Academic and Professional, 1991

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study of Thackeray's "The Newcomes" explores the cultural density found within the text and shows how Thackeray, using doubleness and ironic juxtaposition, exploited the dynamics of alusion in order to achieve several ends: to present an archetypal anc cyclical vision of life, to question the status and value of fictions and to blur traditional distinctions between fiction and history, originality and convention, nature and artifice.

Table of Contents

• The richest of Victorian fictions
• literary allusion in "The Newcomes" - English poetry, Keats, Tennyson, Shakespeare - Horace and the classics - the Bible - novels - theatre, ballet, songs - childhood lore
• the art world
• history and India
• France of the Citizen King
• London and the significance of topography
• newpapers
• names.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA12900975
• ISBN:
  • 0333539583
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 194 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR5638
  • DC20 : 823.8
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Fiction in English. Thackeray, W. M. (William Makepeace), 1811-1863
  • BLSH : Thackeray, W. M. (...William Makepeace...), 1811-1863 -- Criticism and interpretation