Scholars have heretofore under-examined William Makepeace Thackeray's early critical essays despite their potential for illuminating Victorian manners and life. Further, these essays' treatments of aesthetics, class, society, history, and politics are all influenced by the pecuniary aspects of periodical journalism and frequently expose socio-economic attitudes and realities. This study explicates the circumstances, contents, and cultural implications of Thackeray's critical essays. Compensatory payments Thackeray received are reconciled with his bibliographic record, questions regarding Thackeray's interactions with periodicals such as Punch and Fraser's Magazine answered, and a database of the payment practices of early Victorian periodicals established. Thackeray's contributions to leading London newspapers, the Times and the Morning Chronicle, address history, travel, art, literature, religion, and international affairs. Based upon biblio-economic payment records, cross-references, and other information, Thackeray's previously skeletal newspaper bibliographic record is fleshed out with twenty-eight new attributions. With this new information in hand, Thackeray's views on colonial emigration and imperialism, international affairs, religion, medievalism, Ireland, the East, and English middle-class identity are clarified. Further, Thackeray wrote a series of social and political "London" letters for an Indian newspaper, the Calcutta Star. This dissertation establishes that Thackeray's letters were answered in print by "colonial" letters written by James Hume, editor of the Calcutta Star; their mutual correspondence thus constitutes a revealing cosmopolitan - colonial discourse. The particulars of Thackeray's Calcutta Star writings are established, insights into the personalities and viewpoints of both men provided, and societal aspects of their correspondence analyzed. In his many newspaper art exhibition reviews Thackeray popularized serious painting and shaped middle-class taste. The nature and timing of Thackeray's art essays are assessed, espoused values characterized and earlier analyses critiqued, and Thackeray's role introducing middle-class readers to contemporary Victorian art explored. Other Thackeray newspaper reviews addressed literature; indeed, Thackeray's grounding of literature in economic realities demonstrably carried over from his critical thesiss to his subsequent work as a novelist, creating a unity of theme, style, and subject between his early and late writings. Literary pathways originating in Thackeray's critical reviews are shown to offer new insights into Thackeray novels Catherine, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, and Pendennis.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-08-15T11:13:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 4049920 bytes, checksum: 42dfc07793d8f6cabdf93f2557808ca6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-15T11:13:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 4049920 bytes, checksum: 42dfc07793d8f6cabdf93f2557808ca6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The serialized English novel The Book of Snobs (1846) by W. M. Thackeray was published in 1891 in the newspaper O Estado da Paraíba. It was first published in the British magazine Punch (1846) and translated later. The author's main purpose was to show–through satire– a different perspective of the aristocratic society in Victorian England. This paper aims to investigate the English works of fiction and non-fiction in the newspapers in the province of Paraiba, map out the serialized English novels and analyze more thoroughly the novel The Book of Snobs, which is the corpus of this research. Our aim is to understand the circulation and publication practices of the serialized English novel in Paraiba newspapers in the 19th century. We analyzed source materials such as articles, ads, announcements, as well as the English novel itself, which served as a basis to map the presence of English fiction in Paraíba's newspapers. We reflect with authors such as Chartier (1990; 2002; 2011), Barbosa (2007; 2011), Freyre (2000), Ramicelli (2009), Hansen (2004), among others, who helped us to understand the English cultural importance in the development of Paraíba, as well as to understand the space of English novels in serialized in Paraíba‘s newspaper. / O romance em folhetim inglês O livro dos snobs (1846), de W. M. Thackeray, foi publicado em 1891 no jornal O Estado da Paraíba. Teve sua publicação primeira na revista inglesa Punch (1846), sendo traduzido posteriormente. O principal objetivo do escritor era mostra por meio da sátira uma visão diferenciada da sociedade da Inglaterra vitoriana. Este trabalho consiste em investigar os textos ficcionais e não-ficcionais ingleses presentes nos jornais da província paraibana, mapear os romances ingleses em folhetim e analisar mais detidamente o romance O Livros dos Snobs, corpus desta pesquisa, com a finalidade de compreender as práticas de circulação e publicação do romance inglês em folhetim nos jornais paraibanos no século XIX. Buscamos analisar fontes como artigos, anúncios, reclames, bem como o próprio romance inglês, que serviram de base para mapear a presença de ficção inglesa em periódicos paraibanos. Refletimos com autores como Chartier (1990; 2002; 2011), Barbosa (2007; 2011), Freyre (2000), Ramicelli (2009), Hansen (2004), entre outros, que nos ajudaram a compreender a importância cultural inglesa no desenvolvimento da Paraíba, bem como a entender o espaço dos romances ingleses em folhetim nos jornais paraibanos.