名利场(诺顿英国文学评论系列)/Vanity Fair
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作者： Peter L. Shillingsburg 著
出 版 社： 华文出版社
出版时间： 1994-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 874印刷时间： 1995/02/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780393965957包装： 平装内容简介
This Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's ac claimed novel is based upon the text approved by the Modern Language Association. The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by all of the author's original illustrationsas well as a textual appendix.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings."Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarshipwith contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and to highlight different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, which suggest Vanity Fair's initial reception. "Contexts" includes materials relating to governesses, historical novels, the Battle of Waterloo and the military, bankruptcy, regency fashions, and the London landscape, all of which figure prominently in the novel. "Criticism" collects nine wide-ranging essays that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair. William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide their varied perspectives.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
目录
Preface
The Text of Vanity Fair
Engraved vignette title page
Appendix: Composition and Revision of Chapter VI
Backgrounds and Contexts
COMPOSITION AND PRODUCTION
William Makepeace ThackeraySelected Letters
To Mrs. Carmichael-Smyth, July 2, 1847
To the Duke of Devonshire, May 1, 1848
To Miss Smith, June 6, 1848
Anne Thackeray Ritchie[Introduction to Vanity Vair]
Gordon Ray[Originals]
Edgar F. HardenThe Discipline and Significance of Form in Vanity Fair
Geoffrey Tillotson[Philosophy and Narrative Technique]
Peter L. ShillingsburgThe "Trade" of Literature
RECEPTION
Robert A. Colby[Reception Summary]
[Abraham Hayward]Thackeray's Writings
Charlotte Bront6Selected Letters
To W. S. Williams, March 29, 1848
To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848
William Makepeace ThackerayLetter to George Henry
Lewes, March 6, 1848
[George Henry Lewes]Review
[Robert Bell]Review
William Makepeace ThackerayLetter to Robert Bell, September 3, 1848
Charlotte BrontePreface to the Second Edition of Jane Eyre
[Elizabeth Rigby]Review
CONTEXTS
A Pretty FellowWanted a Governess, on Handsome Terms
Maria EdgeworthFemale Accomplishments, Etc.
Kathleen Tillotson[Propriety and the Novel]
Joan StevensVanity Fair and the London Skyline
Robert A. Colby[Victor Cousin and the Foundation for an "Edifice of Humanity"]
Criticism
William C. BrownellWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
David Cecil[A Criticism of Life]
G. Armour CraigOn the Style of Vanity Fair
John LoofbourowNeo-Classical Conventions
Peter K. Garrett[Dialogic Form]
Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, and Myra Stark[Politics of Sexuality]
Ina FerrisThe Narrator of Vanity Fair
Catherine Peters[Didacticism]
James PhelanVanity Fair: Listening as a Rhetorician－and a Feminist
CHRONOLOGY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY