William Makepeace Thackeray

Academic Research

The following bibliography of essays published from the year 2000 to the present about William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and their work was last updated in June 2009. If visitors to this site wish to recommend a scholarly work not included here, please e-mail publication information to Dr. Kurt Harris at harrisk@suu.edu.

| 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | Selected Books |

2008
Barzilai, Shuli. “The Infernal Desire Machines in Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Bluebeard’s Keys and Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber.’” Marvels & Tales 22.1 (2008): 95-124.
2007
Camus, Marianne. "Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of Not Representing War." Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens 66 (2007): 451-66.
Harrison, Stephen. “Horace and the Construction of the English Victorian Gentleman.” Helios 34.2 (2007): 207-22.
Simons, Gary. "Thackeray's Contributions to the Times." Victorian Periodicals Review 40.4 (2007): 332-54.
Zori, Corri. “‘Black Holes of Calcutta and London’: Internal Colonies in Vanity Fair.” Victorian Literature and Culture 35.2 (2007): 417-49.
2006
Cole, Sarah Rose. “The Aristocrat in the Mirror: Male Vanity and Bourgeois Desire in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 61.2 (2006): 137-70.
Jay, Elisabeth. "'In Her Father's Steps She Trod': Anne Thackeray Ritchie Imagining Paris." Yearbook of English Studies 36.2 (2006): 197-211.
Kurnick, David. "Empty Houses: Thackeray's Theater of Interiority." Victorian Studies 48.2 (2006): 257-67.
Warne, Vanessa. “Thackeray among the Annuals: Morality, Cultural Authority and the Literary Annual Genre.” Victorian Periodicals Review 39.2 (2006): 158-78.
2005
Aplin, John. "Three Tennyson Letters to Anne Thackeray." Tennyson Research Bulletin 8.4 (2005): 287-90.
Beaumont, John. "Thackeray in 'Pattledom.'" Notes and Queries 52.4 (2005): 474-76.
Edgecombe, R. S. "Alfred de Musset, Thackeray, and Louis Gallet." English Language Notes 42.3 (2005): 28-32.
Flynn, Michael J. "Novels by Literary Snobs: The Contentious Class-Coding of Thackerayan Parody." Dickens Studies Annual 36 (2005): 199-228.
Flynn, Michael J. "The Transatlantic Grudges of William Makepeace Thackeray and G. P. R. James." Notes and Queries 52.4 (2005): 476-78.
Martin, Ann. "Modernist Transformations: Virginia Woolf, Cinderella, and the Legacy of Lady Ritchie." Woolf Studies Annual 11 (2005): 33-52.
Thomas, Deborah A. "Thackeray, Capital Punishment, and the Demise of Jos Sedley." Victorian Literature and Culture 33.1 (2005): 1-20.
Wiltse, Ed. "The 'Shout of the Beef-Eating British': Nation and Genre in Vanity Fair." CEA Critic 67.3 (2005): 41-64.
2004
Aplin, John. "'Of Papa Always and Always': Thackeray's Daughter and the Early Publishing History of Denis Duval." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 98.3 (2004): 327-49.
Berol, Laura M. "The Anglo-Irish Threat in Thackeray's and Trollope's Writings of the 1840s." Victorian Literature and Culture 32.1 (2004): 103-16.
Hampson, Robert. "From Cornhill to Cairo: Thackeray as Travel-Writer." Yearbook of English Studies 34 (2004): 214-29.
Palmeri, Frank. "Cruikshank, Thackeray, and the Victorian Eclipse of Satire." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 44.4 (2004): 753-77.
Salmon, Richard. "The Geneaology of the Literary Bildungsroman: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and W. M. Thackeray." Studies in the Novel 36.1 (2004): 41-55.
Setecka, Agnieszka. "Courtly Love in the World 'without a Hero': W. M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies 40 (2004): 311-22.
2003
Burkle-Young, Francis A. "Thackeray's 'Transparent' German Pun." Notes and Queries 50.3 (2003): 315-18.
Deneau, Daniel P. "Rhetorical Punctuation in Vanity Fair?" Victorian Newsletter 104 (2003): 29-31.
Jumeau, Alain. "The Way We Live Now; or, Trollope in Vanity Fair." Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens 58 (2003): 57-69.
Nicolay, Claire. "The Anxiety of 'Mosaic' Influence: Thackeray, Disraeli, and Anglo-Jewish Assimilation in the 1840s." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 25.2 (2003): 119-45.
2002
Christian, George Scott. "A Hundred Daily Comedies: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Comic Identity in Old Kensington." Victorian Newsletter 101 (2002): 21-27.
Colby, Robert A. "Thackeray Studies, 1993-2001." Dickens Studies Annual 31 (2002): 365-96.
Hammond, Mary. "Thackeray's Waterloo: History and War in Vanity Fair." Literature and History 11.2 (2002): 19-38.
Hawes, Donald. "Fanny Burney and Thackeray." Notes and Queries 49.1 (2002): 63-65.
Knezevic, Borislav. "A Picaresque Historical Novel: Ireland in W. M. Thackeray's Barry Lyndon." Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia 47-48 (2002): 161-78.
Lindner, Christoph. “Thackeray's Gourmand: Carnivals of Consumption in Vanity Fair." Modern Philology 99.4 (2002): 564-81.
Mullen, Alexandra. “Vanity Fair and Vexation of Spirit.” The Hudson Review 54.4 (2002): 581-89.
Nicolay, Claire. “Delightful Coxcombs to Industrious Men: Fashionable Politics in Cecil and Pendennis.” Victorian Literature and Culture 30.1 (2002): 289-304.
Nuralova, Stella. "W. M. Thackeray and His Cornhill Magazine in Russia: Nineteenth-Century Attitudes." Victorian Periodicals Review 35.3 (2002): 295-304.
Wells, John. "A Thackeray Jeu d'Esprit." Notes and Queries 49.4 (2002): 476-78.
2001
Barnaby, Edward T. "Thackeray as Metahistorian, or the Realist Via Media." CLIO 31.1 (2001): 33-55.
Coppedge, Walter. "Barry Lyndon: Kubrick's Elegy for an Age." Literature Film Quarterly 29.3 (2001): 172-78.
Dames, Nicholas. "Brushes with Fame: Thackeray and the Work of Celebrity." Nineteenth-Century Literature 56.1 (2001): 23-51.
Hesling, Willem. "Kubrick, Thackeray and the Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq." Literature Film Quarterly 29.4 (2001): 264-78.
Johnston, Judith. "The Pyramids of Egypt: Monuments to Victorian Desire." Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 7 (2001): 71-88.
McAuliffe, John. "Taking the Sting out of the Traveller's Tale: Thackeray's Irish Sketchbook." Irish Studies Review 9.1 (2001): 25-40.
Mourão, Manuela. "Negotiating Victorian Feminism: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Short Fiction." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 20.1 (2001): 57-75.
Yacobi, Tamar. “Package Deals in Fictional Narrative: The Case of the Narrator's (Un)Reliability.” Narrative 9.2 (2001): 223-29.
2000
Debenham, Helen. "The Cornhill Magazine and the Literary Formation of Anne Thackeray Ritchie." Victorian Periodicals Review 33.1 (2000): 81-91.
Fisher, Judith L. "Thackeray as Editor and Author: The Adventures of Philip and the Inauguration of the Cornhill Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review 33.1 (2000): 2-21.
Harrison, S. J. "Sons, Mothers, and Lovers in Thackeray and Virgil." Notes and Queries 47.3 (2000): 329-32.
Mourão, Manuela. "Interrogating the Female Bildungsroman: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Marriage Fictions." Nineteenth-Century Feminisms 3 (2000): 73-87.
Phegley, Jennifer. “Clearing Away ‘The Briars and Brambles’: The Education and Professionalization of the Cornhill Magazine's Women Readers, 1860-65. Victorian Periodicals Review 33.1 (2000): 22-43.
Sen, Sambudha. "Bleak House, Vanity Fair, and the Making of an Urban Aesthetic." Nineteenth-Century Literature 54.4 (2000): 480-502.
Sumpter, Caroline. "Extending the Parameters of the Text: Anne Thackeray's Fairy Tales in the Cornhill Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review 33.1 (2000): 65-80.
Teare, Elizabeth. “Cornhill Culture.” Victorian Periodicals Review 33.2 (2000): 117-37.
A selection of books about Thackeray and his work
Clark, Micael M. Thackeray and Women. Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1995.
Colby, Robert. Thackeray’s Canvass of Humanity. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1979.
Collins, Philip, ed. Thackeray Interviews and Recollections. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1983.
Forster, Margaret. Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman: William Makepeace Thackeray. New York: Morrow, 1979.
Harden, Edgar F. The Emergence of Thackeray’s Serial Fiction. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1979.
---, ed. The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray. New York: Garland, 1994.
---. A William Makepeace Thackeray Chronology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Lund, Michael. Reading Thackeray. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1988.
Monsarrat, Anne. An Uneasy Victorian: Thackeray the Man. London: Cassell, 1980.
Peters, Catherine. Thackeray’s Universe. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.
Ray, Gordon N., ed. The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray. 4 vols. Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1946.
---. Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.
---. Thackeray: The Age of Wisdom, 1847-1863. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Shillingsburg, Peter. Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1992.
Sutherland, John. Thackeray at Work. London: Athlone, 1974.
Trollope, Anthony. Thackeray. London: Macmillan, 1879.

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