Volume 1: 1792-1827: 001 (The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock) - Hardcover

Peacock, Thomas Love

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198126581 ISBN 13: 9780198126584

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2001

Synopsis

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a lifelong and assiduous letter-writer at a time when the familiar letter was often virtually an art-form in itself. He had a wide circle of correspondents, and was a close friend of Shelley, whom he assisted over both personal and business affairs after Shelley's abandonment of his wife Harriet and departure to Italy. Friend also of many Radicals of the early nineteenth century, his letters often display the satiric wit of his published prose works such as Headlong Hall and Crotchet Castle. In the later part of his life he rose to high position in the East India Company's service, succeeding James Mill, under whom he had worked, as Examiner. This is the first time his extensive correspondence has been gathered together and given scholarly annotation: the two-volume edition will be invaluable both to students of Romantic literature and to historians of the period.

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Review

Scholars interested in the intersections of periodical discourse and empire will also welcome these volumes. (Victorian Periodicals Review)

... taken altogether, the letters provide a new and most valuable primary resource for examining Peacock's role in the East India Company and add to the story of how intellectuals such as Peacock and Mill functioned as imperial bureaucrats. (Victorian Periodicals Review)

The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock are a pleasure to use - the expectations of expertise and care raised by the sight of "Clarendon Press" on the title page are fully realized not only in the transcriptions of the letters but also in the full chronology, detailed explanation of procedure, superb index, and other apparati. (Victorian Periodicals Review)

Joukovsky's new edition is a model of scholarship: the editor's learning, thoroughness, accuracy, and detective work are formidable. (The Wordsworth Circle)

This edition of Peacock's letters will surely prove an invaluable tool for the study of the informal classicism of nineteenth-century British men. It certainly is a vital resource for the study of the Shelley circle and early nineteenth-century British literary culture. (The Wordsworth Circle)

... edited with impressive scholarship... the footnotes... are exemplary. (The Keats-Shelley Review 16 (2002))

In addition to an eighty-page introduction, which digests Peacock's life and achievement, there is an an excellent index, and the book is produced in the impeccable tradition of the Clarendon Press (The Keats-Shelley Review 16 (2002))

The publication of this exemplary edition - enhanced by a thorough introduction discussing Peacock's correspondents and the history of his manuscripts, ... an invaluable twenty-page chronology of Peacock's life (really the outline of a more scholarly biography than has yet appeared), richly researched annotations, and an excellent index - opens a new era in Peacock studies (Keats-Shelly Journal 51 (2002))

... he has provided students of Romanticism with the most important publication on Peacock since the Halliford Edition of his Works (1924-34) (Keats-Shelley Journal 51 (2002))

The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock belongs in every research library and in the private collections of as many Romanticists as can afford it for the lasting value of it voluminous new evidence on the life of Peacock; ... on the Shelleys and members of their circle; about the period covered by the correspondence it includes (1792-1866); and as a standard against which those editing letters of the period can measure their mastery of the materials with which they are involved. (Keats-Shelley Journal 51 (2002))

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198126581
• ISBN 13: 9780198126584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Joukovsky Nicholas A.