Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction A Note on the Text Thomas Love Peacock: A Brief Chronology
Nightmare Abbey
Appendix A: The Reception of Nightmare Abbey
- The Monthly Review 90 (November 1819)
- The Literary Gazette 99 (12 December 1818)
- The Tickler 1.1 (1 December 1818)
- The European Magazine, and London Review 75 (March 1819)
- From James Spedding, Edinburgh Review 68 (January 1839)
- The Examiner (28 May 1837)
Appendix B: German Literature
- From Karl Grosse, “The Marquis of Grosse” (1796)
- From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stella: A Play for Lovers (1774)
- From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
- From Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff (1813)
Appendix C: Literary Contexts
- From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
- From William Godwin, Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England (1817)
- From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual (1816)
- From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1817)
- From Percy Bysshe Shelley, Author’s Preface to The Revolt of Islam (1818)
- From George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Corsair, A Tale (1814)
- From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth (1818)
- George Gordon, Lord Byron, Dedication to Don Juan (1833)
- From William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Appendix D: Peacock’s Critical and Autobiographical Writings
- From “An Essay on Fashionable Literature” (1818)
- From “The Four Ages of Poetry” (1820)
- From “French Comic Romances” (1835)
- Preface to Volume 57 of Bentley’s Standard Novels (1837)
- “Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House” (1837)
- From “Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley” (1860)
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