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The Birthright and the Blessing
Narrative As Exegesis in Three of Thackeray's Later Novels

By Marion Helfer Wajngot
September 2000
ISBN: 91-22-01866-2
212 pages
$59.50 paper original



This dissertation argues that the many narrative repetitions and allusions in Thackeray's fiction can be read as comments on and interpretations of each other and of biblical texts.

Literature
Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis Stockholm Studies in English, No. 91