Thackeray's Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality

by Catherine Peters

Book Overview

Thackeray's Universe offers an engaging look into the life, world, and works of one of the greatest Victorian novelists.
As Catherine Peters notes, Thackeray insisted on the idea of art as a by-product of life; the twentieth-century critical theories proposing a complete schism between writer and work would have been inconceivable to him. Arguing that both views can lead to serious distortions, Peters seeks to strike a balance between the two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195048555
• ISBN13: 9780195048551
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"