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- Title
The Puppet Narrator of Vanity Fair.
- Authors
Murphy, Ryan Francis
- Abstract
My essay sheds new light on the perceived shortcomings of Thackeray's narrator in Vanity Fair. There exists, I maintain, a level of narratological sophistication for which Thackeray is not adequately praised, and his dramatised narrator - a character long misunderstood and often maligned - is the key to our renewed understanding. In addition to thoroughly canvassing the 'puppet' narrator's dramatic evolution, I examine the ways in which previous scholars have both rejected and misrepresented 'Before the Curtain', Thackeray's introduction to the complete novel - what I call the novel's 'surprise beginning'.
- Subjects
VANITY Fair (Book : Thackeray); THACKERAY, William Makepeace, 1811-1863; SHILLINGSBURG, Peter; FICTION; SATIRE
- Publication
Victoriographies, 2015, Vol 5, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
2044-2416
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/vic.2015.0182