num_pages: 283
description: Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist.He has points in common with Aristophanes Plato Rabelais Voltaire and even Aldous Huxley but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas but his satire is too cheery and good-natured his novel too rambling and his ideas too jovially destructive for the label to stick.A romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley he happily made hay of the romantic movement in Nightmare Abbey clamping Coleridge Byron and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in Crotchet Castle he did no less for the political economists pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and March of Mind. Yet the romantic in him never died: the long witty and indecisive talk of his characters is set in wild natural scenery which Peacock describes with true feeling.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle
publisher: Penguin Classics