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Thackeray in Time - History, Memory, and Modernity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Thackeray in Time - History, Memory, and Modernity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been
recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William
Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). This collection of essays,
however, represents the first sustained critical examination of
Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its varied manifestations.
Encompassing the full chronological span of the author's career and
a wide range of literary forms and genres in which he worked,
Thackeray in Time repositions Thackeray's temporal and historical
self-consciousness in relation to the broader socio-cultural
contexts of Victorian modernity. The first part of the collection
focusses on some of the characteristic temporal modes of
professional authorship and print culture in the mid-nineteenth
century, including periodical journalism and the Christmas book
market. Secondly, the volume offers fresh approaches to Thackeray's
acknowledged status as a major exponent of historical fiction,
reconsidering questions of historiography and the representation of
place in such novels as Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond. The final
part of the collection develops the central Thackerayan theme of
memory within four very different but complementary contexts.
Thackeray's absorption by memories of childhood in later life leads
on to his own subsequent memorialisation by familial descendants
and to the potential of digital technology for preserving and
enhancing Thackeray's print archive in the future, and finally to
the critical legacy perpetuated by generations of literary scholars
since his death.
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