Peacock: His Circle and His Age

by Howard Mills

Thomas Love Peacock, 1785-1866, is known as the author of half a dozen brief satiric 'novels' which caricature men and movements of the early nineteenth century. Dr Mills' critical study treats Peacock as a man who was particularly alive to the important literary development and the general movements of thought in his time. The main contention in this book is that in the Regency period Peacock suddenly became more than the conventional minor writer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521148308
• ISBN13: 9780521148306
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"