Headlong Hall
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: June 2022
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107030732
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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 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.
Read more- Provides a substantial introduction and notes, placing Peacock's satire in context
- Appendices contain full texts of Peacock's manuscript farces The Dilettanti and The Three Doctors
- Peacock's ancient and modern source materials are described and analysed, as is his relationship to classical satire and to the nineteenth-century novel
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'With their meticulous notes, rigorous documentation of textual variants and generous contextual appendices (including two unperformed, unpublished farces that Peacock drew on for Headlong Hall), these fine new volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock get us closer than ever to the nuances of his satire.' Thomas Keymer, the Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107030732
- length: 446 pages
- dimensions: 223 x 144 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.68kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
General Editor's preface
Chronology
Introduction
Headlong Hall
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
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