UID:
almafu_9960753793802883
Format:
1 online resource (cxxix, 337 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-34424-2
Series Statement:
The Cambridge edition of the novels of Thomas Love Peacock ; 1
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jun 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- General Editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- HEADLONG HALL -- I [The Mail] -- II [The Squire. The Breakfast] -- III [The Arrivals] -- IV [The Grounds] -- V [The Dinner] -- VI [The Evening] -- VII [The Walk] -- VIII [The Tower] -- IX [The Sexton] -- X [The Skull] -- XI [The Anniversary] -- XII [The Lecture] -- XIII [The Anniversary Ball] -- XIV [The Proposals] -- XV [The Conclusion] -- Appendix A: Peacock's Preface of 1837 -- Appendix B: The Dilettanti (1812-13) -- Appendix C: The Three Doctors (1812-13) -- Appendix D: A Revised Text of the Headlong 'Chorus' -- Note on the text -- Emendations and variants -- Ambiguous line-end hyphenations -- Explanatory notes -- Select bibliography.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-03073-0
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139344241
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