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.

Peacock's first novel is situated within its literary and historical contexts via a substantial introduction, generous notes, and annotated appendices.

About the Author
Nicholas A. Joukovsky is an Emeritus Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He has previously edited The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, 2 vols. (2001), and Nightmare Abbey, volume 3 of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (Cambridge, 2016).

Reviews
'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notes, rigorous documentation of textual variants and generous contextual appendices (including two unperformed, unpublished farces that Peacock drew on for Headlong Hall), these fine new volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock get us closer than ever to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



Book Information
ISBN 9781107030732
Author Thomas Love Peacock
Format Hardback
Page Count 446
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 144mm * 30mm