Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse

by S.S. Prawer

This study traces the successive stages of Thackeray's contact with the German world and analyses the discourse he developed as a result. The author is concerned with the fiction and criticism of Thackeray's: Paris Sketch Book and the impressions related by the cockney traveller in Irish Sketch Book and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. Thackeray's own pictorial illustrations of his writings and those by Cruikshank, Doyle and Walker,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900755033
• ISBN13: 9781900755030
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"