Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Texts of Thackeray Used -- 1 The Richest of Victorian Fictions -- 2 Literary Allusion in The Newcomes -- English Poetry - Keats, Tennyson, Shakespeare -- Horace and the Classics -- The Bible -- Novels -- Theatre, Ballet, Songs -- Childhood Reading and Lore -- 3 The Art World -- 4 History and India -- 5 France of the Citizen King -- 6 London and the Significance of Topography -- 7 Newspapers -- 8 Names -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.