Melincourt / Thomas Love Peacock ; edited by Gary Dyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866, author.

Contributor:

Dyer, Gary, editor.

Series:

aThe Cambridge edition of the novels of Thomas Love Peacock ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866. Melincourt.

Peacock, Thomas Love.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (clvii, 536 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of illustrations page

General Editor's preface

Acknowledgements

Chronology

List of abbreviations

Introduction

MELINCOURT

I Anthelia

II Fashionable Arrivals

III Hypocon House

IV Redrose Abbey

V Sugar

VI Sir Oran Haut-ton

VII The Principle of Population

VIII The Spirit of Chivalry

IX The Philosophy of Ballads

X The Torrent

XI Love and Marriage

XII Love and Poverty

XIII Desmond

XIV The Cottage

XV The Library

XVI The Symposium

XVII Music and Discord

XVIII The Stratagem

XIX The Excursion

XX The Sea-Shore

XXI The City of Novote

XXII The Borough of Onevote

XXIII The Council of War

XXIV The Barouche

XXV The Walk

XXVI The Cottagers

XXVII The Anti-Saccharine Fete

XXVIII The Chess Dance

XXIX The Disappearance

XXX The Paper-Mill

XXXI Cimmerian Lodge

XXXII The Deserted Mansion

XXXIII The Phantasm

XXXIV The Churchyard

XXXV The Rustic Wedding

XXXVI The Vicarage

XXXVII The Mountains

XXXVIII The Fracas

XXXIX Mainchance Villa

XL The Hopes of the World

XLI Alga Castle

XLII Conclusion

Appendix: Peacock's Preface of 1856

Note on the text

Emendations and variants

Ambiguous line-end hyphenations

Explanatory notes

Select bibliography.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jun 2022).

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866. Melincourt.

ISBN:

1-139-42480-7

OCLC:

1338839158