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Tag: Thackeray

254. (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Thackeray’s Vanity Fair doubles that charge: the novel is braced by a simultaneous awareness of Regency and Victorian foibles, of … More

Thackeray, the novel, Victorian, Victorian Novel

251. (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Vanity Fair asks that we accept the affection that the novelist-narrator feels for the creatures of the Fair, animated as … More

Thackeray, the novel, Vanity Fair, Victorian Novel

85. (William Faulkner)

Two American authors in the 1920s set out on a common task, without knowing it. William Faulkner and Willa Cather … More

American Literature, Cormac McCarthy, Fenimore Cooper, Hawthorne, Scott, Thackeray, the Historical Novel, the novel, Tolstoy, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, William T. Vollman, Zola
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