Books in the The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 7 Volume Set series

Thomas Love Peacock's sixth novel, Crotchet Castle (1831), is full of the humour and social satire for which Peacock is so highly regarded. This comprehensive scholarly edition, the first for more than forty years, includes a full introduction, annotations and other essential textual and scholarly apparatus.

Thomas Love Peacock's third novel, Nightmare Abbey (1818), is a Gothic satire that offers a serious yet witty critique of Romanticism. This first fully comprehensive scholarly edition, including a thorough introduction, annotations and other essential textual apparatus, will be indispensable for scholars of Peacock and Romanticism more generally.

This is the first scholarly edition of Thomas Love Peacock's most ambitious and comprehensive satire, a novel brilliantly engaged with myriad early nineteenth-century controversies. Alongside an authoritative text, this edition features an introduction and explanatory notes that expertly situate Melincourt in its historical and literary contexts.