William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
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William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, where his father was in service to the East India Company. After the death of his father in 1816, he was sent to England to attend school. Upon reaching college age, Thackeray attended Trinity College, Cambridge, but he left before completing visa mer his degree. Instead, he devoted his time to traveling and journalism. Generally considered the most effective satirist and humorist of the mid-nineteenth century, Thackeray moved from humorous journalism to successful fiction with a facility that was partially the result of a genial fictional persona and a graceful, relaxed style. At his best, he held up a mirror to Victorian manners and morals, gently satirizing, with a tone of sophisticated acceptance, the inevitable failure of the individual and of society. He took up the popular fictional situation of the young person of talent who must make his way in the world and dramatized it with satiric directness in The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), with the highest fictional skill and appreciation of complexities inherent within the satiric vision in his masterpiece, Vanity Fair (1847), and with a great subtlety of point of view and background in his one historical novel, Henry Esmond (1852). Vanity Fair, a complex interweaving in a vast historical panorama of a large number of characters, derives its title from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and attempts to invert for satirical purposes, the traditional Christian image of the City of God. Vanity Fair, the corrupt City of Man, remains Thackeray's most appreciated and widely read novel. It contrasts the lives of two boarding-school friends, Becky Sharp and Amelia Smedley. Constantly attuned to the demands of incidental journalism and his sense of professionalism in his relationship with his public, Thackeray wrote entertaining sketches and children's stories and published his humorous lectures on eighteenth-century life and literature. His own fiction shows the influence of his dedication to such eighteenth-century models as Henry Fielding, particularly in his satire, which accepts human nature rather than condemns it and takes quite seriously the applicability of the true English gentleman as a model for moral behavior. Thackeray requested that no authorized biography of him should ever be written, but members of his family did write about him, and these accounts were subsequently published. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) W. M. Thackeray also wrote as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, George Savage Fitz-Boodle, The Fat Contributor, and Ikey Solomons.
Foto taget av: Frontispiece to Works of Wiliam Makepiece Thackeray Vol. 6 (1898) "From a Drawing by Samuel Lawrence"
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Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Fitz-Boodle, George Savage (nom de plume)
Titmarsh, Michael Angelo (nom de plume)
Yellowplush, Charles James (nom de plume)
The Fat Contributor
Solomons, Ikey - Födelsedag
- 1811-07-18
- Avled
- 1863-12-24
- Begravningsplats
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Calcutta, India
- Dödsort
- London, England, UK
- Dödsorsak
- stroke
- Bostadsorter
- Paris, France
Weimar, Germany - Utbildning
- Charterhouse (Smithfield, London)
University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
Middle Temple, London - Yrken
- novelist
journalist
essayist
travel writer
lecturer - Relationer
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray (daughter)
Stephen, Leslie (son-in-law) - Kort biografi
- William Makepeace Thackery was second only to Charles Dickens in stature as an author during the Victorian era. His humorous and satirical writings were much in demand by periodicals, including Punch, and he was a popular lecturer. Today he's best known for his novel Vanity Fair, which is required reading in most college English courses. He experienced tragedy in his personal life due to the long deterioration and mental illness of his wife Isabella.
- Särskiljningsnotis
- W. M. Thackeray also wrote as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, George Savage Fitz-Boodle, The Fat Contributor, and Ikey Solomons.
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Tiden är slutet av Napoleonkrigen och de följande tio åren, varunder två unga kvinnor, Amelia Sedley och Rebecca Sharp, försöker säkra sin framtid. Till skillnad från huvudpersonerna hos satirist som själv levde under perioden och sysslade med samma problem så hör dessa två snarast hemma i städerna och offentligheten, inte i ett stängt samhälle på landsbygden. Amelia är dotter till en rik köpman och sedan länge tilltänkt sonen till dennes numera självständiga kompanjon, Rebecca är dotter till en konstnär och bara kapabel till att röra sig i mer förnäma kretsar då hon utbildats vid samma skola och vid romanens början skall påbörja en tjänst som guvernant.
Amelia är i stort den engelska 1800-talsromanens idealkvinna: godhjärtad, uppoffrande och mjäkig. Rebecca är raka motsatsen: målmedveten, med expanderbart samvete och charmerande. Amelia vill bara få gifta sig med sin George Osborne och få vara en god hustru, Rebecca vill gifta sig och därigenom uppnå en god ställning. Amelia är plågsamt oförmögen till se igenom förställning, Rebecca är alltför benägen till att förställa sig. Amelia skulle alltför lätt kunna bli totalt ointressant, Rebecca antingen ett monstrum eller alltför intagande.
En av Thackerays styrkor är att han undviker båda dessa problem: just när man sitter och är på väg att tröttna på Amelia så byter han antingen scen eller gör något som får henne att framstå som i alla fall inte helt igenom änglalik, och just som man finner att man är på väg av att svepas upp i hur mästerligt Rebecca manipulerar sig till en plats i det annars stelt högdragna noblessen så får man se på vems bekostnad det kan ske, eller så gör hon något av vänlighet direkt efter att man sett henne i sämsta dager (visserligen oftast utan direkt kostnad för sig själv, men ändå).
Samma sak med övriga figurer: de som framstår som helt igenom uppfyllda av den gisslade fåfängan får i de flesta fall en chans att någotsånär ångra sig, och de som framstår som mer uppstående är i allmänhet inte stort bättre de; i stort sett är det väl bara två personer som framstår i besittning av en någotsånär anständig mänsklighet, och en av dem är tämligen perifer: av de halvdussinet personer som verkligen har en framstående roll är det alltså bara William Dobbin som utan tvekan kan tyckas om i sin helhet (även om också han blir lite väl godhjärtad).
Förutom de skoningslösa porträtten verkar satiren främst genom en väldigt aktiv författarröst, som förutom att kommentera även Dobbins små falskheter eller Rebeccas indiskretioner ibland far ut i appellationer till tänkta läsare, eller ger en översikt över något ämne författare brinner för. Ibland är det idag fånigt, som synen på kvinnlighet, ibland fortsatt träffande, som fåfängan i att göra något gott.
Historien är i alla fall underhållande, och det är inte helt säkert vem av huduvpersonerna som komemr lönas för sina metoder.… (mer)