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010 $a 2014048683
020 $a9781107105850 (Hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR830.M475$bM55 2015
082 00 $a823/.009372$223
084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMilne, Kirsty,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAt Vanity Fair :$bfrom Bunyan to Thackeray /$cKirsty Milne.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $aix, 228 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to William Makepeace Thackeray's own Vanity Fair (1847-8). It explores the influence of anonymous journalists and booksellers alongside well-known authors including Ben Jonson, Samuel Richardson and Thomas Carlyle. Over time, Bunyan's dystopian fantasy has been altered and repurposed to characterise consumer capitalism, channelling memories that inform and unsettle modern hedonism. By tracking the idea of 'Vanity Fair' against this shifting background, the book illuminates the relationship between the individual and the collective imagination, between what is culturally available and what is creatively impelled"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 198-225) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
650 0 $aMetaphor in literature.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aBunyan, John,$d1628-1688.$tPilgrim's progress.
600 10 $aThackeray, William Makepeace,$d1811-1863.$tVanity fair.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811071/05850/cover/9781107105850.jpg