Nightmare Abbey
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 153693755X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting — characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. . He died at Lower Halliford, 23 January 1866, from injuries sustained in a fire in which he h
Most of the characters in the novel are based on historical figures whom Peacock wishes to pillory. Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy and transcendental philosophical systems. Insofar as Nightmare Abbey may be said to have a plot, it follows the fortunes of Christopher Glowry, Esquire, a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in his semi-dilapidated family mansion Nightmare Abbey, which is situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens in Lincolnshire.
Lisa Vargo succeeds admirably in bringing this rich backgroundmasterfully synthesized in a critical introduction and amply documented in notes and appendicesto bear on the work for which its author is best known and which, as much as any other work of the period, engages English Romantic culture in all its numerous contradictory forms. To help promote such awareness, Lisa Vargo’s new Broadview edition provides a thoughtful introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an exceptionally rich array of contextual material drawn from contemporary reviews of the novel, translations of earlier German literature, relevant works by Godwin, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Hazlitt, and, perhaps equally important, Peacock’s own critical and autobiographical writings.” Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Pennsylvania State University. “Though considered a lighteven a slightnovel, Nightmare Abbey
Glad I read it! A very humorous & snarky book about the foibles of humans. Very entertaining and a quick, fun read! Glad I read it!. A satire of the Gothic and of pretentious behavior. And very funny. gammyraye This was not the book I expected it to be. In researching the history of the Gothic novel here and there on the internet, I found this novel mentioned as a satire of the genre, written by a friend of the poet Percy Shelley, the same Shelley who sat around telling ghost stories with his friends and his wife Mary, inspiring her to write Frankenstein. And while this novel does have a mysterious female who is suspected of being a mermaid, a secret room concealed in a tower, and a brief appearan. If you love words. This is a great book for those logophiles among us who adore reading wordy 19th century English novels. The English language is sloppier and slangier now; it is no longer spoken in the manner of the dialog in this novel. It is a joy to read dialog that employs the perfect word to impart precise information to the reader. Thomas Peacock also writes with great tongue-in-cheek humor. His characters are caricatures of the preeminent writers of his day, and the dialog attributed to each of them