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  1. At Vanity Fair
    from Bunyan to Thackeray
    Author: Milne, Kirsty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    1 A 949963
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    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    HG 186 M659
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2015 A 5914
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
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    2017/4566
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    65.2580
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    "At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to William Makepeace Thackeray's own Vanity Fair (1847-8). It explores the influence of anonymous journalists and booksellers alongside well-known authors including Ben Jonson, Samuel Richardson and Thomas Carlyle. Over time, Bunyan's dystopian fantasy has been altered and repurposed to characterise consumer capitalism, channelling memories that inform and unsettle modern hedonism. By tracking the idea of 'Vanity Fair' against this shifting background, the book illuminates the relationship between the individual and the collective imagination, between what is culturally available and what is creatively impelled"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107105850
    RVK Categories: HG 434 ; HL 4665
    Subjects: Metaphor in literature; English fiction
    Other subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688): Pilgrim's progress; Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863): Vanity fair
    Scope: ix, 228 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 198-225

    Introduction: the boy at the Royal Exchange -- 1. 'Copying from life': the literal and the literary in Bunyan's Vanity Fair -- 2. Reforming Bartholomew Fair: Bunyan, Jonson, and the transmission of a trope -- 3. 'More moderate now than formerly': re-writing Vanity Fair, 1684-1700 -- 4. 'Gay ideas of Vanity-Fair': transforming Bunyan in the eighteenth century -- 5. 'Manager of the performance': Thackeray's Vanity Fair -- Conclusion: the fair in vogue -- Afterword by Sharon Achinstein
  2. At Vanity Fair
    from Bunyan to Thackeray
    Author: Milne, Kirsty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
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    2015/3890
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    ango10504.m659
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  3. At Vanity Fair
    from Bunyan to Thackeray
    Author: Milne, Kirsty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

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    TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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    /HK 1575 M659
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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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    EAL THACK 1/101
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107105850
    RVK Categories: HK 1575 ; HL 4665
    Other subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688): The pilgrim's progress; Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863): Vanity Fair; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637): Bartholomew Fayre
    Scope: IX, 228 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 198 - 225
  4. At Vanity Fair
    from Bunyan to Thackeray
    Author: Milne, Kirsty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107105850
    Subjects: Metaphor in literature; English fiction
    Other subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688): Pilgrim's progress; Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863): Vanity fair
    Scope: IX, 228 S., 23 cm
  5. At Vanity Fair
    from Bunyan to Thackeray
    Author: Milne, Kirsty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    "At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    1 A 949963
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    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    HG 186 M659
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    GE 2015/8302
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2015 A 5914
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
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    2017/4566
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2017 A 2925
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    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    2016-3318
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    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
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    65/10772
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    55 A 6108
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    65.2580
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    "At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to William Makepeace Thackeray's own Vanity Fair (1847-8). It explores the influence of anonymous journalists and booksellers alongside well-known authors including Ben Jonson, Samuel Richardson and Thomas Carlyle. Over time, Bunyan's dystopian fantasy has been altered and repurposed to characterise consumer capitalism, channelling memories that inform and unsettle modern hedonism. By tracking the idea of 'Vanity Fair' against this shifting background, the book illuminates the relationship between the individual and the collective imagination, between what is culturally available and what is creatively impelled"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107105850; 1107105854
    RVK Categories: HG 434 ; HL 4665
    Subjects: Metaphor in literature; English fiction; Metaphor in literature; English fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; Metaphor in literature
    Other subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688): Pilgrim's progress; Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863): Vanity fair; Bunyan, John 1628-1688; Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863
    Scope: ix, 228 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 198-225

    Introduction: the boy at the Royal Exchange -- 1. 'Copying from life': the literal and the literary in Bunyan's Vanity Fair -- 2. Reforming Bartholomew Fair: Bunyan, Jonson, and the transmission of a trope -- 3. 'More moderate now than formerly': re-writing Vanity Fair, 1684-1700 -- 4. 'Gay ideas of Vanity-Fair': transforming Bunyan in the eighteenth century -- 5. 'Manager of the performance': Thackeray's Vanity Fair -- Conclusion: the fair in vogue -- Afterword by Sharon Achinstein
  6. At Vanity Fair
    From Bunyan to Thackeray
    Author: Milne, Kirsty
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Explores how Vanity Fair transformed from its Puritan origins as an emblem of sin into a modern celebration of hedonism more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    Explores how Vanity Fair transformed from its Puritan origins as an emblem of sin into a modern celebration of hedonism

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781107105850
    Scope: Online-Ressource (240 p)
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    Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction: The boy at the Royal Exchange; 1 'Copying from life': The literal and the literary in Bunyan's Vanity Fair; 2 Reforming Bartholomew Fair: Bunyan, Jonson and the transmission of a trope; 3 'More moderate now than formerly': Re-writing Vanity Fair, 1684-1700; 4 'Gay ideas of Vanity-Fair': Transforming Bunyan in the eighteenth century; 5 'Manager of the Performance': Thackeray's Vanity Fair; Conclusion: The Fair in vogue; Afterword; Appendices; Appendix to Chapter 3

    Appendix to Chapter 4Notes; Bibliography; Index