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The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 7 Volume Set: Series Number 3: Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock
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hardcover. The first fully comprehensive scholarly edition of Thomas Love Peacock's third novel, Nightmare Abbey (1818). Editor(s): Joukovsky, Nicholas A. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Num Pages: 450 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 500.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock
Condition
New
Weight
652g
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107031869
SKU
V9781107031869
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About Thomas Love Peacock
Nicholas A. Joukovsky is Emeritus Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor of The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock (2001), has published widely on Romantic and Victorian writers, and has contributed the articles on Peacock for The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (3rd edition, Volume 4, 1999) and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
Reviews for The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 7 Volume Set: Series Number 3: Nightmare Abbey
'The idiosyncratic joy of Thomas Love Peacock's works is highlighted within wonderfully readable scholarly introductions from Nicholas A. Joukovsky who edits Nightmare Abbey, and Freya Johnston and Matthew Bevis in their edition of Crotchet Castle. ... the first thoroughly edited and annotated imprints of Peacock since the Halliford Edition of the Works, edited between 1924 and 1934 ...' John Gardner, ... Read more