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Vision and Satire: The Warped Looking Glass in Vanity Fair Author(s): Robert E. Lougy Reviewed work(s): Source: PMLA, Vol. 90, No. 2 (Mar., 1975), pp. 256-269 Published by: Modern Language Association Stable URL: /stable/461609 . Accessed: 19/10/2012 08:46 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms Conditions of Use, available at . /page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. . Modern Language Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to PMLA. ROBERT E. LOUGY Vision and Satire: The Warped Looking Glass in VanityFair The more complexa vision the less it lends itself to shoulders against an opened stage trunk, a wooden satire: the less it is ableto the more it understands sword by his side. Dressed in rathertattered cloth- sum up and makelinear. ing, he is gazing into a mirror in his right hand. Woolf, A Writers 6 May 1935) (Virginia Diary, He grips the mirror by the frame rather than by THACKERAY INTRODUCES us into his the handle, as if he had intended to pick it up for novel with a metaphor of the fair or carni- just a moment; his gaze, however, is so steady and val, a metaphor, it seems, intended to em- so intense that we must believe he has been gazing body Thackerays perception both of the novel into the