Letters of Thomas Love Peacock: Volume 1 - 1792-1827

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext Thomas Love Peacock was a lifelong and assiduous letter writer at a time when the letter was often an art-form in itself. He had a wide circle of friends and correspondents which included Shelley and many Radicals of the early nineteenth century. For the first time, this two-volume edition gathers together Peacock's extensive correspondence with scholarly annotation. Zusammenfassung Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a lifelong and assiduous letter-writer, was a close friend of Shelley and friend also of many Radicals of the early 19th century. In the later part of his life, he rose to high position in the East India Company's service. This is a two-volume annotated edition of his extensive correspondence. Inhaltsverzeichnis [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

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Love Peacock
• Assisted by: Nicholas A Joukovsky (Editor), Nicholas A. Joukovsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2001
• EAN: 9780198126584
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812658-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Letters of Thomas Love Peacock
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies