At vanity fair: from bunyan to thackeray
Auteur :
Milne, Kirsty
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107105850
Date de publication :
12 mai 2015
Dimensions :
23,5 x 16,0 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
470 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.