Biography EssayLike many of his fellow Victorian novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray is noted for his ability to create memorable characters—such as Major Gahagan, Charles Yellowplush, Becky ...
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The British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) created unrivaled panoramas of English upper-middle-class life, crowded with memorable characters displaying realistic mixtures of virtue, ...
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Like many of his fellow Victorian novelists, William Makepeace Thackeray is noted for his ability to create memorable characters--like Major Gahagan, Charles Yellowplush, Becky Sharp, Major Pendennis,...
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William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for his novel Vanity Fair, with its attack on pretension and hypocrisy and its intriguing character Becky Sharpe. A few of his other novels are still read--He...
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William Makepeace Thackeray was, after Charles Dickens, the most celebrated British novelist of the nineteenth century. Today his reputation rests mostly on Vanity Fair (1847-1848) and has been eclips...
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William Makepeace Thackeray's status as a writer, illustrator, and critic of children's literature is problematic. Throughout his career he adopted and parodied the genres most associated in his day w...
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In the following essay, Kennedy argues that Thackeray's illustrations are often essential to a full understanding of his novels. The allusions and visual puns of Thackeray's drawings con...
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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
Critical Essay by Victor R. Kennedy
