Annotations to "Vanity Fair"

by Oscar Mandel

This second edition of a unique companion to Thackeray's great novel enables the reader to follow the novelist step by step through the maze of his erudition, clarifying the immense range of references in the novel. Since these annotations are keyed to Thackeray's chapters, not to the page numbers of any particular edition of the novel, they can be consulted in connection with any edition of Vanity Fair the reader happens to own. Within each chapter of this book, the entries follow the order in which they appear in the novel. In addition to the words, phrases, and allusions which obviously or possibly require annotation, the compilers have occasionally commented upon subtleties of narration-without intruding critical opinions upon the reader-and entered a few remarks on Thackeray's own illustrations. They have also addressed textual matters, questions of composition and publication, connections with other areas of Thackeray's oeuvre, and the influence of other works of literature on the novel. Intended for undergraduate and graduate students studying the English Novel. Also of interest to scholars in the field of Victorian Literature as well as general readers.

1 pages, Hardcover

First published November 16, 1988

About the author

Oscar Mandel, poète, traducteur, fabuliste et dramaturge américain, est né en 1926 à Anvers (Belgique). En 1939, adolescent, il est contraint d'émigrer avec sa famille vers les États-Unis.
Il écrit aussi bien en anglais qu'en français.

Oscar Mandel, American poet, translator, fabulist and playwright, was born in 1926 in Antwerp (Belgium). In 1939, a teenager, he was forced to emigrate with his family to the United States.
He writes both in English and French.