Headlong Hall

One of the most prominent prose satirists of the Romantic era is Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866). The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock presents the first complete text of these works to be published in over half a century, including his signature novel Headlong Hall (1816). This edition provides an authoritative text with a comprehensive introduction tracing the novel's genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision. Extensive explanatory notes highlight the Welsh backdrop and the literary, political, social, and intellectual contexts of Peacock's innovative topical satire.

Format: Hardback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Thomas Love Peacock ({PHONE}) stands as one of the most remarkable prose satirists of the Romantic era. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock presents the first complete text of these works to emerge in over half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock's earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, enjoyed immense popularity during his lifetime and is widely regarded as his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country house setting serve as the foundation for a sparkling intellectual comedy that encompasses music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics, craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition offers an authoritative text accompanied by a comprehensive introduction that traces the novel's genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision. Extensive explanatory notes shed 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.

Thomas Love Peacock ({PHONE}) stands as one of the most remarkable prose satirists of the Romantic era. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock presents the first complete text of these works to emerge in over half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock's earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, enjoyed immense popularity during his lifetime and is widely regarded as his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country house setting serve as the foundation for a sparkling intellectual comedy that encompasses music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics, craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition offers an authoritative text accompanied by a comprehensive introduction that traces the novel's genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision. Extensive explanatory notes shed 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.

Weight: 500g
ISBN-13: 9781107030732