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Nightmare Abbey (Hardcover)
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Nightmare Abbey (Hardcover)
Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive
prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of
the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of
his novels to appear for more than half a century. Nightmare Abbey
(1818), Peacock's third novel, is a spirited satire that shows
Peacock to be a perceptive observer and engaged critic of the
literary and political preoccupations of his time. While the novel
has often been characterized in popular culture either as a
burlesque of the Gothic novel or a mere spoof of Romantic gloom and
doom, this edition recognizes it as a purposeful critique of
Romanticism. Explanatory notes illustrate the ways in which several
characters are caricatures of prominent Romantic writers, including
Peacock's close friend Shelley as well as Coleridge and Byron, and
also identify the various sources, some previously unsuspected,
from which Peacock created their dialogue.
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