Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynicchronicles British novelist William Thackerays ambivalent attitudes toward society and traces his conduct during the major crises of his life in terms of those attitudes. Lambert Ennis examines the emotional tensions in Thackerays life and the impact they had in his work. In so doing, he illustrates key themes in Victorian studies more broadly: the question of manners and taste and the relationship between sentimentality and authenticity, and the ways that sentimentality might shape morality.

Last modified

• 08/08/2018

Creator

• Lambert Ennis

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2M70H

Subject

• Literary Criticism

Publisher

• Northwestern University Press

Keyword

• England

Date created

• 1950

Resource type

• Book

License

• Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0