Breeches and Metaphysics

"This study traces the successive stages of Thackeray''s contact with the German world and analyses the discourse he developed as a result. The author is concerned with the fiction and criticism of Thackeray''s :Paris Sketch Book"" and the impressions related by the cockney traveller in ""Irish Sketch Book"" and ""Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo"". Thackeray''s own pictorial illust...