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.
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