The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 1

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 1
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040246303

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 5

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 5
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040242839

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040243908

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 4

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 4
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040242820

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 3

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 3
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2024-08-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040243916

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

The Inheritance of Genius, (Thackeray Vol 1)

The Inheritance of Genius, (Thackeray Vol 1)
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0718842103

This book, the first of two volumes anticipating the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not only the author's life, but also the cosmopolitan and literary worlds inhabited by his two daughters, Minny and Annie. When Thackeray died in 1863, the two sisters were forced to find their own way forward. Minny would marry Leslie Stephen, later father of Virginia Woolf, and die at only thirty-five; Annie, encouraged in early years by her father, would herself emerge as a successful novelist, though one always living, albeit willingly, within her father's shadow. Drawing continuously on the letters, diaries, journals and notebooks of the Thackerays and their circle, Aplin sheds light on this remarkable man's family, and the effect that his life, death and legacy had on those closest to him. The book will appeal not just to those interested in Thackeray and the Victorians, but also to readers of biography, womenis studies and memoirs, and to followers of Viriginia Woolf and Bloomsbury.

Memory and Legacy (Thackeray Vol 2)

Memory and Legacy (Thackeray Vol 2)
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 071884212X

This is a domestic biography of the Thackeray family, placing the writer in the context of his home life. The story continues long after his death, to trace the later lives of his two daughters, Anne Isabella and Harriet Marian, and their marriages.His elder daughter Annie, in particular, took responsibility for guarding and shaping her father's legacy. The source material is not Thackeray's books so much as his own more intimate papers - his letters - and the correspondence and journals of his mother and daughters. The book will appeal not just to those interested in Thackeray and the Victorians, but to the general reader of biography, to those interested in womenis studies, life writing and to followers of the family of Virginia Woolf.

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 1

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 1
Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138758926

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

Textuality and Knowledge

Textuality and Knowledge
Author: Peter Shillingsburg
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0271079959

In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship. Through thirteen essays, Shillingsburg argues that literary study depends on documents, the preservation of works, and textual replication, and he traces how this proposition affects understanding. He explains the consequences of textual knowledge (and ignorance) in teaching, reading, and research—and in the generous impulses behind the digitization of cultural documents. He also examines the ways in which facile assumptions about a text can lead one astray, discusses how differing international and cultural understandings of the importance of documents and their preservation shape both knowledge about and replication of works, and assesses the dissemination of information in the context of ethics and social justice. In bringing these wide-ranging pieces together, Shillingsburg reveals how and why meaning changes with each successive rendering of a work, the value in viewing each subsequent copy of a text as an original entity, and the relationship between textuality and knowledge. Featuring case studies throughout, this erudite collection distills decades of Shillingsburg’s thought on literary history and criticism and appraises the place of textual studies and scholarly editing today.

The Life of Henry James

The Life of Henry James
Author: Peter Collister
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2023-03-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119483093

Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series. In The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography, Peter Collister, an established critic and authority on Henry James, offers an original and fully documented account of one of America’s finest writers, who was both a creative practitioner and theorist of the novel. In this volume, James’s life in all its personal and cultural richness is examined alongside a detailed scrutiny of his fiction, essays, biographies, autobiographies, travel writing, plays and reviews. James was a dedicated and brilliant letter-writer and his biographer make judicious use of this material, some of it previously unpublished, evoking in the novelist’s own words the society within which he moved and worked. His gift for friendship, often resulting in close relationships with both men and women, are sensitively explored. Near the beginning of his long and highly productive life, James left America to immerse himself in European culture and history – a necessity, he felt, for the developing artist. In an ironic symmetry he witnessed in his youth the effects of the American Civil War and in his last days, finally becoming a British citizen, despaired at the unfolding tragedy of the Great War in Europe. Sustained, nevertheless, by his own creative energy, he never ceased to believe in the capacity of the arts to enhance and give significance to life. Provides well-informed accounts of Henry James’s youth in New York City, his unconventional education, his extensive travel in Europe, his eventual assimilation into British society, his development as a writer and his personal relationships as a single man. Features discussions of James’s major works in a variety of genres from an assured theoretical and historical perspective. Assesses James’s developing quest for dramatic form in his fiction – the ‘scenic art’ – as well as his critical writing which was to have a lasting influence on the literature and aesthetic values of the twentieth century. Discusses his achieved aspiration to be ‘just literary’, to become what he called that ‘queer monster’, an artist. Charts James’s lifelong interest in art and theatre. An incisive discussion of the life of an author of major stature, The Life of Henry James: A Critical Biography offers a refreshingly lucid and human account of a novelist and his often challenging, but rewarding, writing. Peter Collister, a former college Assistant Principal, has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. He is the author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America and later edited for the university presses of Cambridge and Virginia the award-winning volumes: The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James's autobiographical writings, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene.