Judith L. Fisher

Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship makes a substantial contribution to nineteenth-century reading practices, as well as narratology in general. Judith Fisher combines in this study rhetorical and ethical analysis of Thackeray's narrative techniques to trace how his fiction develops to educate his reader into what she terms a "hermeneutic of skepticism." This is a kind of poised reading which enables his readers to integrate his fiction into their life in what Thackeray called "a world without God" without becoming pessimistic or fatalistic. Fisher expertly weaves an accessible narrative theory with thoroughgoing knowledge of Thackeray's life in an integrated reading of his entire works. Reading Thackeray holistically in spite of his own disruptive practices, she does full justice to his critical skepticism while elucidating his canon for a new readership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351895408
• Artikelnr.: 47954950

Autorenporträt

Judith L. Fisher

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:The hermeneutic of skepticism
The "Right Line I": Narratorial collusion and the perils of "Sternism"
A version of a "Man and a Brother": Or, character into narrator
The rebellious text and the resisting reader
The secret history of Henry Esmond
Infinite isolations
"The Abode of Bliss and the Halls of Prismatic Splendour"
Bibliography
Index.