Thackeray's cultural frame of reference : allusion in The Newcomes
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Thackeray's cultural frame of reference : allusion in The Newcomes
Macmillan Academic and Professional, 1991
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Includes index
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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.
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