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Melincourt (Hardcover)
Thomas Love Peacock; Edited by Gary Dyer
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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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