Thackeray : : The Major Novels / / Juliet McMaster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: McMaster, Juliet,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Abbreviations --; 1. Narrative Technique: J/anity Fair --; 2. Tone and Theme: Pendennis --; 3. Moral Ambiguity: Henry Esmond --; 4. Manners and Morals: The N ewcornes --; 5. Ambivalent Relationships --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487574772; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487574772
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Juliet McMaster.

Although few critics deny Thackeray’s position as a major novelist, he has had comparatively little of the kind of critical attention that has been devoted to Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, or Henry James in the last thirty years. His curious combinations of satire and sentiment, geniality and deviousness, snobbery and anti-snobbery, and his habits of retreating from one disguise to another, have made him difficult to deal with, and his practice of exposing his stories as fictions has evoked hostility in many critics who are none the less fascinated by him. In this original and revealing study of the major novels, Juliet McMaster contends that Thackery is a consummate artist and a highly sophisticated ironist, exploiting to the full the potential of the various personae he adopts, and introducing ambiguity deliberately, to sharpen the reader’s moral perceptions and to evoke the complexity of experience itself.