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Nightmare Abbey, Hardback Book

Nightmare Abbey Hardback

Edited by Nicholas A. (Pennsylvania State University) Joukovsky

Part of the The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 7 Volume Set series

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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.

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