The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock
Volume 1 1792-1827
Thomas Love Peacock
Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky
Price: £101.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-812658-4
Publication date: 22 March 2001
352 pages, 234x156 mm
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| - '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)
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... 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)
- 'The scholarship is evident in annotation that is enormously impressive ... The notes are full of interest and Joukovsky makes his scholarship all the more useful by compiling a very fine index to the whole edition.' - Review of English Studies
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| Description | | - Publishes for the first time all the correspondence of this significant but neglected Romantic figure, who was Shelley's literary adviser, business agent, and executor
- Throws light on Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron, and their circle, and on Hobhouse, Byron's executor, as well as many other significant literary and philosophical figures of the nineteenth century
- Covers his work for the East India Company and promotion of steam navigation
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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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| Contents |
[vol. I]
List of Letters and Papers
Abbreviations and Symbols
Introduction
Editorial Policy
Chronology
LETTERS AND PAPERS 1-129 (1792-1827)
[vol. II]
Abbreviations and Symbols
LETTERS AND PAPERS 130-336 (1828-66)
Appendix: Additional Letters to Peacock
Register of Letters to Peacock
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Thomas Love Peacock
Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky
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