McMaster has made an extensive identification and detailed study of the many kinds of allusions to be found in The Newcomes. There are allusions to classical, foreign-Language, and English literature, as well as to the Bible, fables, theatre, opera, popular songs, nursery rhymes, newspapers, art, English and French history, and the topography of London. These allusions saturate the text of The Newcomes and appeal to several different readerships. McMaster specifies what Thackeray's contemporaries would have recognized and responded to and suggests interactions between the text and its readers. The cultural density of The Newcomes is identified by McMaster as textual, intertextual, and, to a degree, parodic. He shows that Thackeray exploited the dynamics of allusion -- through doubleness and ironic juxtaposition -- to achieve several ends. Not only does Thackeray present an archetypal and cyclical vision of life, he questions the status and value of diverse fictions and blurs the traditional distinctions between fiction and history, originality and convention, and nature and artifice. In his account of allusion, McMaster has used a simple and straightforward style, avoiding unnecessary jargon and cumbersome definitions. Thackeray's Cultural Frame of Reference reveals a Thackeray particularly amenable to a post-modern, and especially to an intertextual, approach to literature.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823/.8
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773508384 9780773562929
- LCCN
- PR5614
- LCCN Item number
- M158 1991eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (ix, 194 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200609 (CaBNVSL)slc00200609 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)144142476 (CaOOCEL)400855
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Texts of Thackeray Used 11
- 1 The Richest of Victorian Fictions 12
- 2 Literary Allusion in The Newcomes 19
- English Poetry – Keats, Tennyson, Shakespeare 24
- Horace and the Classics 36
- The Bible 54
- Novels 63
- Theatre, Ballet, Songs 75
- Childhood Reading and Lore 89
- 3 The Art World 98
- 4 History and India 117
- 5 France of the Citizen King 131
- 6 London and the Significance of Topography 145
- 7 Newspapers 170
- 8 Names 176
- Notes 183
- Index 196
- A 196
- B 196
- C 197
- D 198
- E 198
- F 199
- G 199
- H 199
- I 200
- J 200
- K 200
- L 200
- M 201
- N 201
- O 202
- P 202
- R 203
- S 203
- T 204
- V 205
- W 205
- Y 205
- Z 205
