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Melincourt (Hardcover)
Thomas Love Peacock; Edited by Gary Dyer
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R3,116
R2,866
Discovery Miles 28 660
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Melincourt (1817), Thomas Love Peacock's only three-volume novel,
is also his most comprehensive work. In it, he explores a broad
range of controversies: the dangers of 'paper money'; British
consumers' complicity in slavery; the inequities of the current
system of parliamentary representation; the problem of
differentiating between human beings and other animals; and, most
centrally, the question of whether and how the human condition
might be improved. Peacock's brilliant synthesis of courtship novel
and quest romance can only be fully appreciated against its
colourful and fraught historical background, and Gary Dyer expertly
equips readers with the historical and literary awareness required
to recognise it as one of Peacock's most stimulating works. Vividly
illuminating its remarkable plot - from the suitors' courtship of
Anthelia Melincourt to the rescue party comprised of Sylvan
Forester, Mr Fax and the chivalrous 'oran outang' Sir Oran Haut-ton
- this edition makes Melincourt more accessible than ever before.
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Nightmare Abbey (Hardcover)
Thomas Love Peacock; Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky
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R3,176
Discovery Miles 31 760
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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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Crotchet Castle (Hardcover)
Thomas Love Peacock; Edited by Freya Johnston, Matthew Bevis
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R3,176
Discovery Miles 31 760
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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. Crotchet Castle
(1831), his sixth novel, contains all the humour and social satire
for which Peacock is famous. Its lively farce is more ambitious
than that of the earlier works in its range of cultural and
intellectual targets, including progressivism, dogmatism,
liberalism, sexism, mass education and the idiocies of the learned.
The book constitutes an artistic, political and philosophical
miscellany of sorts, thematically unified in its satirical emphasis
on folly and dispute - and on the folly of dispute itself. This
edition provides a full introduction, chronology, annotations and
detailed textual and scholarly apparatus.
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Headlong Hall (Hardcover)
Thomas Love Peacock; Edited by Nicholas Joukovsky
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R3,094
R2,844
Discovery Miles 28 440
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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
these works to appear for more than half a century. Headlong Hall
(1816), Peacock's earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction,
was the most popular of his tales during his lifetime and
considered his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country
house setting provide the framework for a sparkling intellectual
comedy that embraces music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics,
craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition
supplies an authoritative text and a comprehensive introduction
tracing the genesis, composition, publication, reception, and
revision of the novel. Extensive explanatory notes throw light on
the Welsh backdrop to the fiction as well as on the literary,
political, social, and intellectual contexts of Peacock's
innovative topical satire.
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Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
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Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
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R827
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Headlong Hall
Thomas Love Peacock
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R873
Discovery Miles 8 730
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Headlong Hall
Thomas Love Peacock
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