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Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse.(Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20010101
Author:Stark, Susanne

Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray's German Discourse. By S. S. PRAWER. (Studies in Comparative Literature, 1) Oxford: Legenda. 1997. xiii + 529 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].

After having examined the Jews and Judaism in the writings of William Makepeace Thackeray in Israel at Vanity Fair (Leiden: Brill, 1992), S. S. Prawer has undertaken to present German elements in Thackeray's oeuvre in this scrupulously researched monograph.

Thackeray's importation of a multi-faceted web of German culture to Britain began in 1830, when the author first visited Germany and Weimar. This ...

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