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"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…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2001Palgrave · 163 pages · 9780333650929
Novelists, EnglishEnglish NovelistsBiographyBiographiesRomanciers anglais18.05 English literatureCriticism and interpretationThackeray, william makepeace, 1811-1863