Melincourt

By:

Thomas Love Peacock

Format:

Hardback

Series:

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock

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Melincourt (1817), Thomas Love Peacock's only three-volume novel, is also his most comprehensive work. In it, he explores a broad range of controversies: the dangers of 'paper money'; British consumers' complicity in slavery; the inequities of the current system of parliamentary representation; the problem of differentiating between human beings and other animals; and, most centrally, the question of whether and how the human condition might be improved. Peacock's brilliant synthesis of courtship novel and quest romance can only be fully appreciated against its colourful and fraught historical background, and Gary Dyer expertly equips readers with the historical and literary awareness required to recognise it as one of Peacock's most stimulating works. Vividly illuminating its remarkable plot – from the suitors' courtship of Anthelia Melincourt to the rescue party comprised of Sylvan Forester, Mr Fax and the chivalrous 'oran outang' Sir Oran Haut-ton – this edition makes Melincourt more accessible than ever before.

Author Biography:

Gary Dyer is Professor of English at Cleveland State University. He is author of British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832 (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and many articles dealing with Romantic literature, book history, and literature and law. He is currently writing Lord Byron on Trial: Literature and the Law in the Romantic Period.

Release date NZ

June 9th, 2022

Author

Thomas Love Peacock

Series

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock

Contributor

Edited by Gary Dyer

Pages

694

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Dimensions

145x223x43

ISBN-13

9781107032262

Product ID

36001688

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