Headlong Hall
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107030730
ISBN-13
9781107030732
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2022
Print length
446 Pages
Weight
686 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 22.30 x 3.10 cms
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This new edition of Headlong Hall provides an authoritative text of Peacock's ground-breaking first novel. Alongside a substantial historical and critical introduction, this volume contains full textual and explanatory notes that trace the genesis of Peacock's satirical fiction and identify its many ancient and modern sources.
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.
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