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Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship (Paperback)
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Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship (Paperback)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's
ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as
well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical
Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship makes a
substantial contribution to nineteenth-century reading practices,
as well as narratology in general. Judith Fisher combines in this
study rhetorical and ethical analysis of Thackeray's narrative
techniques to trace how his fiction develops to educate his reader
into what she terms a "hermeneutic of skepticism." This is a kind
of poised reading which enables his readers to integrate his
fiction into their life in what Thackeray called "a world without
God" without becoming pessimistic or fatalistic. Although
Thackeray's narrative strategies have been the subject of study,
most have focused on Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond only, and none
look as closely as does this study at actual rhetorical techniques
such as his use of pronominalization to interpolate the reader into
his skeptical discourse. Fisher also brings her analysis to bear on
The Adventures of Philip and The Virginians, Thackeray's last two
complete novels, both of which were critical failures even as
contemporary critics acknowledged their stylistic excellence. This
is the first study to attempt to understand the puzzle of those two
books; Fisher recovers them from their marginalized position in
Thackeray's oeuvre. Fisher expertly weaves an accessible narrative
theory with thoroughgoing knowledge of Thackeray's life in an
integrated reading of his entire works. Reading Thackeray
holistically in spite of his own disruptive practices, she does
full justice to his critical skepticism while elucidating his canon
for a new readership.
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