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Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray

ISBN-13: 9780814735466
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Edgar F. Harden, Edited by Mike Hill
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Local release date: 01/12/1996
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 400 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Memoirs [BM]

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Google Preview: In Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden provides a lively and accessible framework for selected letters, diaries, and comical illustrations of Thackeray. Harden has carefully selected documents which convey the essential biographical developments of a very interesting life and pictorial expressions of a great man of letters. He traces Thackeray's growth and development as a writer, from his school days in Southhampton to Cambridge University, which he left without a degree, to his ascendence as a writer. In spite of his personal struggles Thackeray articulates in his letters a great exuberance for life. Harden has included seventy five of Thackeray's comical illustrations, which support and enhance the letters they accompany.; One of the world's leading authorities on Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in England, and is the author of several books including The Emergence of Thackeray's Serial Fiction. Mike Hill is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the editor of Whiteness: A Critical Reader (NYU Press, 1997), and the co-editor of Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere.; "Bollywood's engagement with the world is not a new phenomenon. However, the editors make the case, quite persuasively, that its engagement with the rest of the world post 1991, when India liberalized its economy, was quite different from what came before... The most persuasive essays in the volume shed light on previously unexplored terrain in Indian film culture. These include Natalie Sarrazin's essay "Songs from the Heart" that examines music's centrality to the Bollywood film narrative and not just as an isolated art form (a subject astonishingly ignored thus far), and Punathambekar's piece on participatory culture that adds a new dimension to the study of fandom in India."-International Journal of Communication, "Engaging, and a rewarding experience. A must-read for all Bollywood enthusiasts as well as others who wish to be informed about this remarkable phenomenon." -Vijay Mishra, author of "Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire"; Google Preview content

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