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At Vanity Fair : from Bunyan to Thackeray
- Title
- At Vanity Fair : from Bunyan to Thackeray / Kirsty Milne.
- Author
- Milne, Kirsty
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- ix, 228 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to William Makepeace Thackeray's own Vanity Fair (1847-8). It explores the influence of anonymous journalists and booksellers alongside well-known authors including Ben Jonson, Samuel Richardson and Thomas Carlyle. Over time, Bunyan's dystopian fantasy has been altered and repurposed to characterise consumer capitalism, channelling memories that inform and unsettle modern hedonism. By tracking the idea of 'Vanity Fair' against this shifting background, the book illuminates the relationship between the individual and the collective imagination, between what is culturally available and what is creatively impelled"--
- Subjects
- Pilgrim's progress (Bunyan, John)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 > Vanity fair
- Metaphor in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English fiction > History and criticism
- Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 > Pilgrim's progress
- Vanity fair (Thackeray, William Makepeace)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the boy at the Royal Exchange; 1. 'Copying from life': the literal and the literary in Bunyan's Vanity Fair -- 2. Reforming Bartholomew Fair: Bunyan, Jonson, and the transmission of a trope -- 3. 'More moderate now than formerly': re-writing Vanity Fair, 1684-1700 -- 4. 'Gay ideas of Vanity-Fair': transforming Bunyan in the eighteenth century -- 5. 'Manager of the performance': Thackeray's Vanity Fair -- Conclusion: the fair in vogue; Afterword Sharon Achinstein.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-4304
- ISBN
- 9781107105850
- 1107105854
- LCCN
- 2014048683
- OCLC
- 899949287
- Author
- Milne, Kirsty, author.
- Title
- At Vanity Fair : from Bunyan to Thackeray / Kirsty Milne.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-4304