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Reading
Thackeray Michael Lund |
Although
scholars are aware that serialization was the usual publication format for
the Victorian novel, few take into account how this special reading experience
affected the meaning of Thackeray's novels for his audience. Thackeray used
a number of techniques to encourage his readers to take an active and prolonged
part in his installment fiction. Michael Lund's study focuses on the reading
of Thackeray's novels and investigates how Victorian understanding of
Vanity Fair and Thackeray's
other major texts was significantly shaped by the manner in which readers
encountered these novels. Situating modern readers in the context of the Victorian audience, particularly within the monthly serial mode, Lund demonstrates in what ways Thackeray made use of his readers' prolonged commitment to his fictional worlds to shape and refine Victorian culture in positive ways. |
"Reading
Thackeray is, in the best sense, a stimulating book; and that means that
it will stimulate disagreement as wall as pleased assent . . . [Readers]
will find that Lund's discussions and analyses have deepened their appreciation
of Thackeray's subtle and elusive narrative art and enhanced their understanding
of the way in which his novels enlist the cooperation of its modern readers
no less than that of their Victorian predecessors."—S.S. Prawer,
Times Literary Supplement |
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| $19.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-1988-2 176 pages 1988 |
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