At Vanity Fair - From Bunyan to Thackeray

Informationen zum Autor Kirsty Milne (1964–2013) was a highly regarded British journalist and academic. During her career she was staff writer for The New Statesman and The Scotsman, was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, was Fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies, was author of a pamphlet, Manufacturing Dissent (2005) and gained a Leverhulme Fellowship. Klappentext Explores how Vanity Fair transformed from its Puritan origins as an emblem of sin into a modern celebration of hedonism. Zusammenfassung In The Pilgrim's Progress! John Bunyan presented Vanity Fair as a place of sin and punishment! but by the nineteenth century it had come to symbolise glamour and worldliness. Kirsty Milne explores the fascinating story of a literary metaphor that has utterly reversed its meaning over three centuries of fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Kirsty Milne, Kirsty (University of Oxford) Milne, Milne Kirsty
• Assisted by: Achinstein Sharon (Afterword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107513686
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51368-6
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; History of Ideas, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: general, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE