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It is an exhaustive list of Peacock's victims, but his satire at their expense is not
that of the censor or the moralist. Its end is laughter, good-humored, tolerant
laughter at that. As Friar John, in Maid Marian, says: "The worst thing is good
enough ...
It is an exhaustive list of Peacock's victims, but his satire at their expense is not
that of the censor or the moralist. Its end is laughter, good-humored, tolerant
laughter at that. As Friar John, in Maid Marian, says: "The worst thing is good
enough ...
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For Nightmare Abbey is a satire on the English romantic movement, which
Peacock knew at first hand. Some of the characters at least are suggested by life:
Scythrop is based on Shelley, and not only in his inability to choose between two
...
For Nightmare Abbey is a satire on the English romantic movement, which
Peacock knew at first hand. Some of the characters at least are suggested by life:
Scythrop is based on Shelley, and not only in his inability to choose between two
...
Page 150
This makes Peacock's satire the best-natured in the world. It glows with sympathy
, and, when appropriate, bursts into beauty in its own right. For Peacock was
always a poet, and he is never more a poet than in his satirical novels.
This makes Peacock's satire the best-natured in the world. It glows with sympathy
, and, when appropriate, bursts into beauty in its own right. For Peacock was
always a poet, and he is never more a poet than in his satirical novels.
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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