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ISBN:
9781316226551
Content:
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
Content:
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
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107105850
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107513686
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Print version ISBN 9781107105850
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Bunyan, John 1628-1688 The pilgrim's progress
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Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863 Vanity Fair
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Metapher
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316226551
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