At vanity fair: from bunyan to thackeray
Auteur :
Milne, Kirsty
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107513686
Date de publication :
31 août 2017
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,3 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
350 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
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.