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At Vanity Fair

From Bunyan to Thackeray

At Vanity Fair( )
Author: Milne, Kirsty
Afterword by: Achinstein, Sharon
ISBN:978-1-316-22655-1
Publication Date:May 2015
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:AUD $200.00
Book Description:

In The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan presented Vanity Fair as a place of sin and punishment, but by the nineteenth century it had come to symbolise glamour and worldliness. Kirsty Milne explores the fascinating story of a literary metaphor that has utterly reversed its meaning over three centuries of fiction.




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