Nightmare Abbey
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Part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock
- Real Author: Thomas Love Peacock
- Editor: Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: December 2016
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107031869
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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.
Read more- Nightmare Abbey (1818) is a Gothic satire that offers a serious yet witty critique of Romanticism
- This is volume three of the first complete edition of Thomas Love Peacock's novels to appear for over forty years
- The series is the most comprehensive edition of Peacock's novels ever published, with full introductions, annotations and other textual and scholarly apparatus
Reviews & endorsements
'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, Notes and Queries
See more reviews'Readers are provided with all the information they need to understand and evaluate both the texts and the purposes underlying them … the editors have interpreted their brief generously. They have done an excellent job in identifying many 'out-of-the-way sources and analogues', as well as in positioning the texts accurately at a particular nineteenth-century cultural moment … this is likely to become the edition of choice for scholars and enthusiasts of Peacock's novels, and for economists, historians, philosophers and other students of the changing currents of nineteenth-century intellectual culture. The volumes are beautifully produced.' Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement
'… the first two volumes of the Cambridge Edition should become the new standard for editors of the Romantic novel. They not only perform the scholarly work of informing the reader of dates, circumstances, and variants, but they do what the best textual editing can: hugely enrich the experience of reading Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, and consequently enhance our sense of Peacock's vigour, complexity, and wit.' William Bowers, Keats-Shelley Journal
'… [a] meticulous edition …' Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books
'Nightmare Abbey excels in tracking the composition through Spring 1818 … A variety of sources, including anecdotal evidence, are similarly used to recreate the immediate critical response … offering valuable commentary on prototypes of the novel's satiric figures, generic and personal … In a final section on 'Afterlife', the editor convincingly attributes a shift in fortunes in the popularity of this title to the growth of English literature as an academic subject … a remarkable achievement in elucidating Peacock's 'fine wit' for present and future readers.' Peter Garside, Peacock edition
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- Date Published: December 2016
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107031869
- length: 430 pages
- dimensions: 223 x 146 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
General editor's preface
Chronology
Introduction
Nightmare Abbey
Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837
Appendix B. An Essay on Fashionable Literature (1818)
Appendix C. The Four Ages of Poetry (1820)
Note on the text
List of emendations and variants
Ambiguous line-end hyphenations
Explanatory notes
Bibliography.
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