Israel at Vanity Fair
Jews and Judaism in the Writings of W.M. Thackeray
Biographical note
Siegbert S. Prawer is Taylor Professor of German emeritus in Oxford University, Honorary Fellow and Dean of Degrees of Queen's College, Oxford, a member of the British Academy and the German Academy of Language and Literature, honorary member of the MLA of America, and the author of books on comparative literary studies, the cinema of terror and its literary roots, Karl Marx and world literature, Mörike, and Heine; he has also edited books on Romanticism, the Lied and modern poetry.
Readership
students of English literature, scholars in the field of Jewish studies, sociologists, historians, and all who are interested in the interrelation of verbal and pictorial iconography.
Reviews
'...thoughtful, richly informed, urbane, a pleasure to read. It is a major and welcome contribution to Thackeray studies.'
R.C. McMaster, Victorian Review, 1994.
'Prawer's study of Thakeray is an exhaustive work of criticism.'
Bryan Cheyette, Notes and Queries, 1994.
'...[a] thorough and knowledgeable study, which provides insight into a great...genius.'
Tim Youngs, Victorian Studies, 1994.
R.C. McMaster, Victorian Review, 1994.
'Prawer's study of Thakeray is an exhaustive work of criticism.'
Bryan Cheyette, Notes and Queries, 1994.
'...[a] thorough and knowledgeable study, which provides insight into a great...genius.'
Tim Youngs, Victorian Studies, 1994.
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