윌리엄 새커리의 『허영의 시장』

Abstract

This article examines the public sphere embodied in Vanity Fair. This article is based on Habermas's idea upon the public sphere in terms of the historical consideration. In his Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere, Habermas, by sketching the political, economical and historical context surrounding the public sphere, shows how the bourgeois public sphere was formed and collapsed. Especially, the readers of the novels, newspapers and journals are called the reading public. Based on the public sphere, the public sphere in the world of letters made up of the reading public was organized. In Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the narrator uses the double - discourse or the double voice. While one of the double narration is considered commonly predominant notion those days, the other can be regarded as suggesting a new point of view about the social, political and moral issues. By reference to those facts, this article tries to reveal the possibility to the formation of the public sphere in the text of Vanity Fair.