THE THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK SOCIETY

ex libris

  The following books are available to the Thomas Love Peacock Society. (Books in red belong to the Morris Miller Library at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania; all others belong to Informal.) Any member or friend of the TLPS who wishes to locate a quotation or reference in any of the books listed below, should write to Informal.

  I  Peacock's works:

Author of "Headlong Hall", Gryll Grange. London: Parker, Son, and Bourne, 1861.

Thomas Love Peacock, The Works of Thomas Love Peacock. edited and with an introduction and notes by H.F.B. Brett-Smith and C.E. Jones, London: Constable, 1924-34. [The Halliford Edition in ten volumes:
  I  Biographical Introduction and Headlong Hall. 1934
  II  Melincourt. 1924
  III  Nightmare Abbey and Maid Marian. 1924
  IV  The Misfortunes of Elphin and Crotchet Castle. 1924
  V  Gryll Grange. 1924
  VI  Poems. 1927
  VII  Poems and Plays. 1931
  VIII  Essays Memoirs Letters & Unfinished Novels. 1934
  IX  Critical & Other Essays. 1926
  X  Dramatic Criticisms and Translations & Other Essays. 1926]
.

    -----    Gryll Grange. London: Macmillan, 1927 [with an introduction by George Saintsbury; illustrated by F.H. Townsend].

    -----    Gryll Grange. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.

    -----    Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1929 [with an introduction by the late Dr Richard Garnett].

    -----    Headlong Hall Nightmare Abbey. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1965 [with an introduction by P.M. Yarker].

    -----    Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle. London: Macmillan, 1927 (with an introduction by George Saintsbury; illustrated by F.H. Townsend).

    -----    Melincourt. London: Macmillan, 1927 [with an introduction by George Saintsbury; illustrated by F.H. Townsend].

    -----    Peacock's Memoirs of Shelley with Shelley's Letters to Peacock. edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith, London: Henry Frowde, 1909.

    -----    Nightmare Abbey Crotchet Castle. edited by Raymond Wright, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.

    -----    Nightmare Abbey, The Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle. edited by Charles B. Dodson, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

    -----    Novels of Thomas Love Peacock [Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, The Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle], London: Pan Books, 1967 [introduction by J.B. Priestley; notes by Barbara Lloyd Evans].

    -----    A Peacock Selection. edited with an introduction and notes by H.L.B. Moody, London: Macmillan, 1966.

    -----    The Pleasures of Peacock: Comprising in Whole or in Part the Seven Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. edited with an introduction by Ben Ray Redman, New York: Farrar Straus & Co., 1947. [N.A. & C.C. are whole, the other five novels are abridged.]

    -----    The Poems of Thomas Love Peacock. edited by Brimley Johnson, London: Routledge & Sons.

    -----    Three Novels [Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle], London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1959 [with an introduction by John Mair].

 

  II  other works:

Peter Bowering, Aldous Huxley: a Study of the Major Novels. London: Athlone Press, 1968.

Bryan Burns, The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1985.

Kenneth Neill Cameron (ed.), Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1961 [vol. I & II] & 1970 [vol. III & IV].

Olwen W. Campbell, Thomas Love Peacock. Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.

Carl Dawson, His Fine Wit: A Study of Thomas Love Peacock. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
    -----    The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968 [Profiles in Literature Series].

Felix Felton, Thomas Love Peacock. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.

Robert F. Kiernan, Frivolity Unbound: Six Masters of the Camp Novel. New York: Continuum, 1990. [Thomas Love Peacock, Max Beerbohm, Ronald Firbank, E.F. Benson, P.G. Wodehouse, Ivy Compton-Burnett.]

Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period: 1789-1830. London & New York: Longman, 1989.

Robert Kiely, The Romantic Novel in England. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973 [second printing].

George Kitchin, A Survey of Burlesque and Parody in English. Edinburgh & London: Oliver and Boyd, 1931.

Hakan Kjellin, Talkative Banquets: a Study in the Peacockian Novels of Talk. Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiskell, 1974 [Stockholm Studies in History of Literature 14].

Margaret McKay, Peacock's Progress: Aspects of Artistic Development in the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Uppsala: Act Univ. Ups. Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 78, 1992.

Howard Mills, Peacock. His Circle and His Age. Cambridge: CUP, 1969.

Mario Praz, The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction (translated by Angus Davidson). London, New York & Toronto: OUP, 1956.

J.B. Priestley, English Humour. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1929.
    -----    Thomas Love Peacock. London: Macmillan, 1966 [introduced by J.I.M. Stewart].

Ramos Ramos, María del Rocío, El Mock-Symposium en las novelas de T.L. Peacock: una deuda con los clásicos. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2003.

J.I.M. Stewart, Thomas Love Peacock. London: The British Council and the National Book League, 1963 [No. 156 of Writers and Their Work].

J.C. Stobart, The Wordsworth Epoch. London: Edward Arnold, 1929 [Vol. VIII of Epochs of English Literature].

Carl Van Doren, The Life of Thomas Love Peacock. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1911.

Timothy Webb & Peter Garside (ed.), Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin XXXVI: Thomas Love Peacock Special Number. Heslington, York: Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, 1985.
  [This contains:
    Nicholas A. Joukovsky. "Peacock before Headlong Hall: A New Look at the Early Years."
    Lionel Madden. "'Terrestrial Paradise': The Welsh Dimension in Peacock's Life and Work."
    Marilyn Butler. "Druids, Bards and Twice-Born Bacchus: Peacock's Engagement with Primitive Mythology."
    Howard Mills. "The Dirty Boots of the Bourgeoisie: Peacock on Music."
    Bryan Burns. "The Classicism of Peacock's Gryll Grange." &
    Carl Dawson. "Peacock's Comedy: A Retrospective Glance".]

Hugh Walker, English Satire and Satirists. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1925.

Gore Vidal, "Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" in The Essential Gore Vidal. edited by Fred Kaplan, New York: Random House, 1999.

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