Comedy and Satire in the Novels of Thomas Love PeacockStanford University, 1970 - 490 pages |
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... tion enough for Headlong Hall's small but select audience of appreciators . Much of the work's failure to attract general favor has owed to an unwillingness or unprepared- ness of readers to take it on its own terms . This analysis has ...
... tion enough for Headlong Hall's small but select audience of appreciators . Much of the work's failure to attract general favor has owed to an unwillingness or unprepared- ness of readers to take it on its own terms . This analysis has ...
Page 95
... tion of the literary figures to two : Mr. Flosky and Mr. Cypress . The work gains by keeping Roderick Sackbut ( Southey ) and his cohorts offstage , preventing the diffusion and dilu- tion of satiric effort which weakened Melincourt ...
... tion of the literary figures to two : Mr. Flosky and Mr. Cypress . The work gains by keeping Roderick Sackbut ( Southey ) and his cohorts offstage , preventing the diffusion and dilu- tion of satiric effort which weakened Melincourt ...
Page 225
... tion ; but their plots are more substantial than others of the symposium tradition . Although the symposium strain seems dominant in Peacock's work , most of his novels con- tain distinct portions where the characters venture out from ...
... tion ; but their plots are more substantial than others of the symposium tradition . Although the symposium strain seems dominant in Peacock's work , most of his novels con- tain distinct portions where the characters venture out from ...
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