Hammond, Mary
(2002).
Thackeray's Waterloo: History and War in Vanity Fair.
Literature and History, 11(2),
pp. 19–38.
Abstract
This paper examines Thackeray's best-known novel Vanity Fair in the light of mid-19th-Century preoccupations with the Battle of Waterloo as social panacea. It argues that the novel's sophisticated social critique cannot be properly understood without an acknowledgement of the place Waterloo occupied in the national imagination at this time.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| ISSN: |
0306-1973 |
| Keywords: |
Thackeray; Vanity Fair; Battle of Waterloo; Nineteenth-Century Literature |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
2807 |
| Depositing User: |
Mary Hammond
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| Date Deposited: |
19 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 19:48 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/2807 |
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