Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love

Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140430455)

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Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love

Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle

$17.00
Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love

Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist.

He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling, and his ideas too jovially destructive for the label to stick.

A romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley, he happily made hay of the romantic movement in Nightmare Abbey, clamping Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in Crotchet Castle he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and March of Mind. Yet the romantic in him never died: the long, witty, and indecisive talk of his characters is set in wild, natural scenery which Peacock describes with true feeling.

Author: Thomas Love Peacock
ISBN-10: 0140430458
ISBN-13: 9780140430455
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 01/28/1982
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.08w x 0.64d
By Thomas Love Peacock
By Thomas Love Peacock
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Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was born in Weymouth, the son of a London merchant. His schooling ended before he was thirteen and he became a clerk in a City office in London while beginning a close study of French, Italian and English literature. He also published several volumes of minor poetry through which he made the acquaintance of Shelley, who was a close friend from 1812 until his death in 1822.

Peacock wrote his first novel, Headlong Hall, in 1815, starting the series of seven satirical novels on which his fame rests. Melincourt and Nightmare Abbey, a satire on 'black romanticism', followed in 1817 and 1818. In 1820 he married Jane Gryffydh and also wrote The Four Ages of Poetry, which baited Shelley to reply with his classic Defense of Poetry. Further novels, Maid Marion (1822), The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829), Crochet Castle (1831), a satire on political economy and the ideas of James Mill and Bentham, followed, but he was desperately grief-stricken by the death of his mother in 1833 and for the next twenty-five years wrote almost nothing, working with great diligence for the East India Company as an excellent administrator. His Memoirs of Shelley were published in 1858-62 and his last novel, Gryll Grange, in 1860. He retired in 1856 and lived as a recluse until his death.

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