W. M. Thackeray's Literary Relations: Sources, Influences, Confluences

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• Thackeray on Carlyle's style
• The Retreated Narrator: Carlylel and Thackeray's Showman in Vanity Fair
• Thackeray's attitude toward Bulwer-Lytton
• Thackeray versus Dickens on the Writing Profession
• Youthful Heroics in Thomas Hughes, Dickens and Thackeray
• A New Kind of Hero: Dickens's Great Expectations and Thackerays's The Adventures of Philip

Critical Reception and Reputation

• W. E. Henley on Thackeray
• The influence of Vanity Fair upon Thackeray's reputation and prosperity

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Last modified 30 April 2008