...John Halperin Corrupt Relations: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Collins and the Victorian Sexual System . By Barickman Richard MacDonald Susan Stark Myra . New York : Columbia University Press , 1982 . Pp. viii , 285 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press...

...Ruth ap Roberts The Exposure of Luxury: Radical Themes in Thackeray . By Hardy Barbara . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 1972 . Pp. 190 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 6l2 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Exposure of Luxury: Radical...

...Pauli F. Baum Thackeray the Novelist . By Tillotson Geoffrey . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1954 . Pp. xv , 312 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly To this reviewer the chapter on The Magic of the Flats shows...

... of construction and maintenance, the Spaniards allowed the system to deteriorate until between them and the centuries since it has disappeared under the debris of time. Von Hagen and his comrades have rendered an invaluable service by resurrecting it for the tourist and the scholar. alan k. Manchester Thackeray...

...Emerson Grant Sutcliffe Copyright © 1922 by Duke University Press 1922 Thackeray s Romanticism Emerson Grant Sutcliffe University of Minnesota With confidence one may look to Mr. James Branch Cabell to make two blades of romanticism grow where only one, or none at all, grew before...

...Ruth Aproberts Thackeray’s Canvass of Humanity: An Author and His Public . By Colby Robert A. . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 1979 . Pp. vi , 469 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass of Humanity: An Author...

...Paull F. Baum Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THACKERAY S LETTERS* PAULL F. BAUM IT WAS PART of the self-consciousness of the Victorians that so many of their men of letters deprecated the writing of their own biographies. Perhaps they had, or thought they had, something...

... endlessly de­ scribe her as captivating, a miraculous creation, a finely wrought masterpiece, and an unequivocal triumph. Fascinated critics often assume that Thackeray himself became fond of her and that he wished his readers to become so, too. Cornelius Weygandt speaks for most of them when he...

...Alistair M. Duckworth The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in 18th-Century Prose . By Uphaus Robert W. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1979 . Pp. 160 . $14.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass...

...William H. Cartwright 136 The South Atlantic Quarterly biography? Above all, the man must emerge; his private life must supple­ ment and illuminate this literary work. Thackeray s position as a novelist is still under debate. His theory of fiction as a form of history, his own intrusions...

... Flesh, or Born in Exile. During the discussion of Thackeray every critical commonplace imaginable is pulled out and pawed over as if it were new-found jewelry. Yes, Thackeray refused to take the literary conventions seriously, it s true. Yes, he was interested in what he called the sentiment of reality...

... develop the admiration for him which those evince who have done so? I have known readers who have met Thackeray too soon, and become prejudiced against him. It takes a knowledge of life to appreciate Thackeray; I rather think that a knowledge of life militates against a true appreciation of Dickens. Like...

... the charm and value of this book. Alice m. Baldwin Thackeray the Novelist. By Geoffrey Tillotson. New York: Cam­ bridge University Press, 1954. Pp. xv, 312. $4.00. There might be two good reasons for a book on Thackeray the novelist, besides Professor Tillotson s enthusiastic admiration of Thackeray...

... are attracted to writers who show more sympathy and less objectivity. Can one get a better idea of Thackeray s personality hidden in his novels than by read­ ing the Roundabout Papers? I dare say, begins his essay on Ogres, the reader has remarked that the upright and inde­ pendent vowel, which stands...

... industry and self-reliance, dislikes work as ascetic discipline result­ ing in Puritan joylessness. Thackeray s habit of indulging in comments which, from failure to fuse with other elements in his presentation, often shatter the illusion on which everything hangs is investigated by J. Y. T. Greig, who...

.... This is the century of Byron and Hobhouse, of James Morier, Kinglake, Thackeray, and Eliot Warburton, of atmospheric visitors like the estimable Julia Pardoe, of exploring soldiers, engineers, geologists, and archaeologists, and of brilliant draughtsmen like Edward Lear and Thomas Allom. There is, perhaps, not much...

.... But there are authors who enjoy a permanent popularity with the reading public even though they are at times seemingly neglected. Of this number are Scott, Thackeray, and Dickens, and may I not also add George Eliot? It is true, George Eliot is not read as she once was. Nor is any one of the others for that matter...

... considerable familiarity. He asked the young man to name his favorite British novelist. Thackeray. Did Walt like him? No, Walt couldn t say that he ever got much enjoyment out of Thackeray. His own choice? Well, if he had to name one, it would probably be all things con­ sidered Sir Walter Scott. The talk...

... the deliberate and impertinent moralizing of Thackeray, the clumsy exegesis of George Eliot, the knowing nods and winks of Charles Reade, the stage-carpentering and limelighting of Dickens, even the fine and important analysis of Hawthorne, it was with a joyful astonishment that I realized the great art...

... Reviews 83 whole century in time and cover a very wide range of human interests. Poets, novelists, dramatists, actors, artists, critics, statesmen, lawyers, editors, lords, and business men from such relicts of the preceding age as Jeffrey and Rogers, through the mid-century period of Thackeray, Carlyle...