Peter L. Shillingsburg是密西西比州立大学的英语教授。他是《飞马在驾驭:维多利亚出版》和《威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷与计算机时代的学术编辑》的作者。他是萨克雷的《花蕾与西风》、《黄色长毛绒》、《名利场》、《潘登尼斯》以及豪厄尔·格温的诗集的编者。Shillingsburg一直是澳大利亚国防部队学院的客座教授,也是古根海姆研究所的研究员。
"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings. "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception.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" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 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 varied perspectives.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
《批评》是一本收录了1900年至1990年间的九篇文章的合集,揭示了人们对《名利场》的反应。William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters和James Phelan提供了不同的观点。
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