内容摘要 "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 "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception.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. 编辑推荐 没有任何经典文学版本堪与诺顿经典文学评论版本的编辑标准相媲美。 诺顿经典文学评论版本不仅收录了所能找到的zui权威文本,还附有从作品首次出版至今的众多名家评论、作者亲笔和友人书信。其翔实的背景资料和丰富的评论内容有助于读者更加深入了解作品。诺顿经典文学评论系列的每一本书都经过认真编辑和一流翻译,附有详细的注释、精选的参考书目,有助于学生进一步学习研究。 诺顿经典文学评论系列备受教师青睐,更是学生的shou选,其优秀的编辑标准、翔实的内容赢得了教学界和学术界一致好评,已广泛应用于世界各地2500多个大学和学院。 本系列丛书均采用无酸纸张印刷。
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