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Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse: 1 (Studies in Comparative Literature) - Softcover

Prawer, S. S.

 
9781900755030: Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse: 1 (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1900755033 ISBN 13: 9781900755030
Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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, which he supervised and supplemented, are recognized as an integral part of his German discourse. The study is a chronological one, setting Thackeray's construction of "German" and "the Germans" against the background of his own development and of the social, industrial, cultural and political history of Britain and its continental neighbours.

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S. S. Prawer

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1900755033
ISBN 13 
9781900755030
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
544