In The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan presented Vanity Fair as a place of sin and punishment, but by the nineteenth century it had come to symbolise glamour and worldliness. Kirsty Milne explores the fascinating story of a literary metaphor that has utterly reversed its meaning over three centuries of fiction.
In The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan presented Vanity Fair as a place of sin and punishment, but by the nineteenth century it had come to symbolise glamour and worldliness. Kirsty Milne explores the fascinating story of a literary metaphor that has utterly reversed its meaning over three centuries of fiction.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kirsty Milne (1964-2013) was a highly regarded British journalist and academic. During her career she was staff writer for The New Statesman and The Scotsman, was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, was Fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies, was author of a pamphlet, Manufacturing Dissent (2005) and gained a Leverhulme Fellowship.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: the boy at the Royal Exchange 1. 'Copying from life': the literal and the literary in Bunyan's Vanity Fair 2. Reforming Bartholomew Fair: Bunyan, Jonson, and the transmission of a trope 3. 'More moderate now than formerly': re-writing Vanity Fair, 1684-1700 4. 'Gay ideas of Vanity-Fair': transforming Bunyan in the eighteenth century 5. 'Manager of the performance': Thackeray's Vanity Fair Conclusion: the fair in vogue Afterword Sharon Achinstein.
Introduction: the boy at the Royal Exchange 1. 'Copying from life': the literal and the literary in Bunyan's Vanity Fair 2. Reforming Bartholomew Fair: Bunyan, Jonson, and the transmission of a trope 3. 'More moderate now than formerly': re-writing Vanity Fair, 1684-1700 4. 'Gay ideas of Vanity-Fair': transforming Bunyan in the eighteenth century 5. 'Manager of the performance': Thackeray's Vanity Fair Conclusion: the fair in vogue Afterword Sharon Achinstein.
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