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A note on the text --
Thomas Love Peacock: a brief chronology --
Nightmare Abbey. Appendix A : The reception of Nightmare Abbey --
1. The Monthly review 90 (November 1819) ; 2. The Literary gazette 99 (12 December 1818) ; 3. The Tickler 1.1 (1 December 1818) ; 4. The European magazine, and London review 75 (March 1819) ; 5. From James Spedding, Edinburgh review 68 (January 1839) ; 6. The Examiner (28 May 1837) Appendix B : German literature --
1. From Karl Grosse, "The Marquis of Grosse" (1796) ; 2. From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stella: a play for lovers (1774) ; 3. From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of young Werther (1774) ; 4. From Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff (1813) Appendix C : Literary contexts --
1. From William Godwin, An enquiry concerning political justice (1793) ; 2. From William Godwin, Mandeville: a tale of the seventeenth century in England (1817) ; 3. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The statesman's manual (1816) ; 4. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia literaria (1817) ; 5. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn to intellectual beauty" (1817) ; 6. From Percy Bysshe Shelley, Author's Preface to The revolt of Islam (1818) ; 7. From George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Corsair, a tale (1814) ; 8. From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Canto the fourth (1818) ; 9. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Dedication to Don Juan (1833) ; 10. From William Hazlitt, The spirit of the age (1825) Appendix D : Peacock's critical and autobiographical writings --
1. From "An essay on fashionable literature" (1818) ; 2. From "The four ages of poetry" (1820) ; 3. From "French comic romances (1835) ; 4. Preface to volume 57 of Bentley's Standard novels (1837) ; 5. "Recollections of childhood: the Abbey House" (1837) ; 6. From "Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (1860). |
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