Author: Thomas Love Peacock
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Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Thomas Love Peacock
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Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Thomas Love Peacock
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Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Bryan Burns
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389205326
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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This is the first book to offer a literary analysis of Peacock's novels, including the two ironic medieval romances Maid Marian and The Misfortunes of Elphin. Other works included are Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle, The Romances and Gryll Grange.

Author: Claude Annett Prance
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This text includes an outline chronology of Thomas Love Peacock's life; descriptions of the characters in his novels, plays, and fragments; essays on Peacock on clerics, libraries and his attractive ladies and Peacock and Charles Lamb; recommended introductions to Peacock and a list of his works including recent editions; an extensive list of book and magazine articles about him; and an appendix dealing with those contemporaries upon whom Peacock may have based some of his characters, and giving the views of the principal writers on Peacock.

Author: Thomas Love Peacock
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Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Dorothy Brannen
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Category : Satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Joseph Percy Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Laura S. Brown
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150171662X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day. In Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Laura Brown shows how the literary works of the eighteenth century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, affording a uniquely flexible perspective on difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence. Writers of this first age of the rise of the animal in the modern literary imagination used their nonhuman characters—from the lapdogs of Alexander Pope and his contemporaries to the ill-mannered monkey of Frances Burney's Evelina or the ape-like Yahoos of Jonathan Swift—to explore questions of human identity and self-definition, human love and the experience of intimacy, and human diversity and the boundaries of convention. Later literary works continued to use imaginary animals to question human conventions of form and thought. Brown pursues this engagement with animal-kind into the nineteenth century—through works by Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning—and into the twentieth, with a concluding account of Paul Auster's dog-novel, Timbuktu. Auster's work suggests that—today as in the eighteenth century—imagining other animals opens up a potential for dissonance that creates distinctive opportunities for human creativity.

Author: Norma Leigh
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Languages : en
Pages : 264

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