Title: William Makepeace Thackeray
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Novelists, English, English Novelists, Biography, Biographies, Romanciers anglais, 18.05 English literature, Criticism and interpretation, Thackeray, william makepeace, 1811-1863
People: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR5631 .S48 2001