William Makepeace Thackeray
Subtitle: a literary life
By: Peter Shillingsburg.
Series: Literary lives; Literary lives (Palgrave (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: William Makepeace Thackeray
Description: "William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life offers a new perspective on the relation between Thackeray's life and his novels. It combines an analysis of his philosophy/religion with his life's experiences with women and acknowledgements of his dependence on writing for a livelihood to provide an explanation for his narrative strategies. Tracing Thackeray's composition and revision of sample passages demonstrates that these strategies were conscious developments.

Thackeray's critique of the evils of society focused subtly on conventional domestic cruelties and on the inequities of the world of women, but he did so in a way that could be dismissed and would not necessarily alienate the public upon whose goodwill his livelihood depended."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.