Thackeray the Writer

EDGAR F. HARDEN is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. He has published on Browning, Trollope and especially Thackeray in journals that include Victorian Poetry, PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, and Journal of English and Germanic Philology. He is also the author of The Emergence of Thackeray's Serial Fiction (1979), Thackeray's English Humourists and Four Georges (1985), and Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. A Critical Study (1995).

• Preface List of Abbreviations The History of Pendennis The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and the History of Henry Esmond The Newcomes The Four Georges and The Virginians Lovel the Widower The Adventures of Philip Roundabout Papers Denis Duval Notes Index

Reviews of previous books Thackeray the Writer: From Journalism to Vanity Fair by Edgar Harden 'Harden's approach usefully supplements biographical responses to Thackeray's hardest years and works which focus on the writer's negotiation of the publishing market-place' - In Brief, Times Literary Supplement 'The present work will help even old hands to see the way in which [Thackeray] developed...into the humorist with the truly complex world view and moral subtlety of Vanity Fair.' - The Thackeray Newsletter The Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray by Edgar Harden 'These letters, so amusing and so touching are a wonderful introduction not only to Thackeray the novelist but to the letter-writing world of the Victorians.' - Contemporary Review 'some of the warmest and wittiest documents to survive from that age of great letter-writing...anyone who glimpses the monument uncovered by this inspiring excavation of Thackeray's heart will encounter both a great writer and a noble personality.' - Daily Telegraph 'A lively collection of Thackeray's letters, diaries and comical illustrations, Harden's edition...is essential reading for all students of the Victorian novel.' - The Year's Work in English Studies Edgar Harden, with the help of his publishers, has supplied us with a sampling of Thackeray's epistolary art in a form and at a price for every person attracted to Thackeray's works'. - The Thackeray Newsletter