Thackeray at Work

The study of Thackeray''s major fiction reconstructs the novelist''s working methods with the help of manuscript material, much of it previously unpublished. The book''s main argument is directed against the commonplace view that Thackeray was in some way a ''careless'' artist. Much that appears casual or unpremeditated in his work can in fact be explained by the mode of composition which he devel...