At Vanity Fair From Bunyan to Thackeray |
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Author:
| Milne, Kirsty |
Afterword by:
| Achinstein, Sharon |
ISBN: | 978-1-107-10585-0 |
Publication Date: | May 2015 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $108.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.