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Nightmare Abbey de Thomas Love Peacock

Nightmare Abbey

Autor Thomas Love Peacock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 ian 2023

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Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy and transcendental philosophical systems. Most of the characters in the novella are based on historical figures whom Peacock wishes to pillory.

Christopher Glowry, Esquire, a morose widower lives with his only son Scythrop in his semi-dilapidated family mansion Nightmare Abbey, which is situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens in Lincolnshire.

Mr Glowry is a melancholy gentleman who likes to surround himself with servants with long faces or dismal names such as Raven, Graves or Deathshead. The few visitors he welcomes to his home are mostly of a similar cast of mind: Mr Flosky, a transcendental philosopher; Mr Toobad, a Manichaean Millenarian; Mr Listless, Scythrop's languid and world-weary college friend; and Mr Cypress, a misanthropic poet. The only exception is the sanguine Mr Hilary, who, as Mr Glowry's brother-in-law, is obliged to visit the abbey from family interests. The Reverend Mr Larynx, the vicar of nearby Claydyke, readily adapts himself to whatever company he is in.

Scythrop is recovering from a love affair which ended badly when Mr Glowry and the young woman's father quarrelled over terms and broke off the proposed match. To distract himself Scythrop takes up the study of German romantic literature and transcendental metaphysics. With a penchant for melancholy, gothic mystery and abstruse Kantian metaphysics, Scythrop throws himself into a quixotic mission of reforming the world and regenerating the human species, and dreams up various schemes to achieve these ends. Most of these involve secret societies of Illuminati. He writes a suitably impenetrable treatise on the subject, which only sells seven copies. But Scythrop is not despondent. Seven is a mystical number and he determines to seek out his readers and make of them seven golden candlesticks with which to illuminate the world. He has a hidden chamber constructed in his gloomy tower as a secret retreat from the enemies of mankind, who will no doubt seek to thwart his attempts at social regeneration.

Meanwhile, however, he is constantly distracted from these projects by his dalliance with two women - the worldly and flirtatious Marionetta and the mysterious and intellectual Stella - and by the constant stream of visitors to the abbey.

Things become interesting when Mr and Mrs Hilary arrive with their niece, the beautiful Marionetta Celestina O'Carroll. She flirts with Scythrop, who quickly falls in love; but when she plays hard to get, he retreats to his tower to nurse his wounded heart.

Disappointed in love, a sorrowful Scythrop decides the only thing to do is to commit suicide, but circumstances persuade him to instead follow his father in a love of misanthropy and Madeira.

The characters are mouthpieces for Peacock's wit and satire. The main one, Scythrop, is based on Peacock's friend, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and is more a case of Peacock humorously poking fun than a bitter parody. The character talks a great deal (but to no real effect) about social regeneration, is prone to moods and fancies, and very taken with the gothic and the mysterious.

Despite its name, Nightmare Abbey isn't Gothic horror but rather a humorous spoof of the Gothic and romance tales of the late 1700s.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789358593129
ISBN-10: 9358593121
Pagini: 84
Dimensiuni: 215 x 138 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP

Recenzii

This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock’s contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr. Glowry’s son Scythrop (also modeled on a famous Romantic, Peacock’s friend Percy Bysshe Shelley) locks himself up in a tower where he reads German tragedies and transcendental philosophy and develops a “passion for reforming the world.” Disappointed in love, a sorrowful Scythrop decides the only thing to do is to commit suicide, but circumstances persuade him to instead follow his father in a love of misanthropy and Madeira. In addition to satire and comic romance, Nightmare Abbey presents a biting critique of the texts we view as central to British romanticism.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a range of illuminating contemporary documents on the novel’s reception and its German and British literary contexts. A selection of Peacock’s critical and autobiographical writings is also included.

“Though considered a light—even a slight—novel, Nightmare Abbey requires of its ideal reader extensive knowledge of the age that produced it: the literature, the politics, and, not least, the personalities associated with English Romanticism. Lisa Vargo succeeds admirably in bringing this rich background—masterfully synthesized in a critical introduction and amply documented in notes and appendices—to bear on the work for which its author is best known and which, as much as any other work of the period, engages English Romantic culture in all its numerous contradictory forms. Vargo has brought together the resources of recent Peacock scholarship and an invaluable archive of excerpted contemporary texts to produce an edition of Peacock’s most characteristic—and arguably his best—novel for a new generation of readers.” — James Mulvihill, University of Alberta
“Published in the same year as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey is not just a burlesque of the Gothic novel, but a sustained critique of what he regarded as ‘the darkness and misanthropy of modern literature.’ His witty satire on ‘the spirit of the age’ can best be understood through an awareness of its complex intertextual relations with other works of Romantic literature. To help promote such awareness, Lisa Vargo’s new Broadview edition provides a thoughtful introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an exceptionally rich array of contextual material drawn from contemporary reviews of the novel, translations of earlier German literature, relevant works by Godwin, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Hazlitt, and, perhaps equally important, Peacock’s own critical and autobiographical writings.” — Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Pennsylvania State University

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This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock’s contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr. Glowry’s son Scythrop (also modeled on a famous Romantic, Peacock’s friend Percy Bysshe Shelley) locks himself up in a tower where he reads German tragedies and transcendental philosophy and develops a “passion for reforming the world.” Disappointed in love, a sorrowful Scythrop decides the only thing to do is to commit suicide, but circumstances persuade him to instead follow his father in a love of misanthropy and Madeira. In addition to satire and comic romance, Nightmare Abbey presents a biting critique of the texts we view as central to British romanticism.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a range of illuminating contemporary documents on the novel’s reception and its German and British literary contexts. A selection of Peacock’s critical and autobiographical writings is also included.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
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 (March1819)
  5. From James Spedding, Edinburgh Review 68 (January1839)
  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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Notă biografică

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a poet and author. He was a prolific writer, mainly of satirical works, and many critics believe that he and Percy Bysshe Shelley influenced one another's works, since they were close friends. Peacock's father died in reduced circumstances, so the young Thomas was largely self-educated, and spent much time in the Reading Room at the British Library studying the best classical texts he could find. Whilst much of his poetry and essays were very well-thought of, Peacock is best known today for his novels Nightmare Abbey and Melincourt.