The Literary Gothic | Thomas Love Peacock

[Thomas Love Peacock Society]

Biographical note and a bibliography that provides a "scorecard" indicating which characters in his novels represent which real-life literary figures. [Peter J. Large]

Thomas Love Peacock

Substantive biographical note and brief secondary bibliography. [Anne Zanzucchi, The Camelot Project, U Rochester]

Biographical note

[James Mulvihill, U Alberta; Literary Encyclopedia]

Biographical note

[The Authors Calendar]

Biographical overview

Includes bibliography. [Wikipedia]

Biographical note

[NNDB]

Biographical note

[BookRags.com]

Brief biographical note

[Gothic Labyrinth]

Thomas Love Peacock

[1911 Encyclopedia]

Brief biographical note

[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]

Brief biographical note

[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]

Overview

by George Saintsbury, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921) [Bartleby.com]

Peacock Hyper-Concordance

Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts of Peacock's works, including Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle.

Portraits

[National Portrait Gallery, London]

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Crotchet Castle [1831]

- at T. L. Peacock Society (300K)
- at Project Gutenberg (238K)

Headlong Hall [1815] (214K) [T. L. Peacock Society]

-- see also this radio adaptation of Headlong Hall. While not available in audio, the full script is accessible from the "Script" link on the right side of the page. Other links take you to illustrations and to helpful notes. [David Winn, CFUV 101.9 FM, U of Victoria, BC, Canada]

Nightmare Abbey [1818] (198K)

Peacock's most famous work, which takes on not only Gothicism but many of the "major" Romantic literary figures as well. A "must-read" for any fans of Romanticism. [T. L. Peacock Society]
-- brief intro to and extract from Nightmare Abbey [W. W. Norton]

Peacock, Thomas Love