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Thomas Peacock's Maid Marian: a Humorist's Treatment of Traditional Materials
Eastern Illinois University The Keep Plan B Papers Student Theses & Publications 1-1-1967 Thomas Peacock's Maid Marian: A Humorist's Treatment of Traditional Materials Ronald D. Snead Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/plan_b Recommended Citation Snead, Ronald D., "Thomas Peacock's Maid Marian: A Humorist's Treatment of Traditional Materials" (1967). Plan B Papers. 542. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/plan_b/542 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Theses & Publications at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Plan B Papers by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thomas fea~ock's Maid Marian: A Humorist 's Treatment of raditional Materials (TITLE) BY Ronala L. Snesd PLAN B PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION AND PREPARED IN COURSE English 5e5 IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL, EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS 1966-67 YEAR I HEREBY RECOMMEND THIS PLAN B PAPER BE ACCEPTED AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE DEGREE, M.S. IN ED . '" °()$.( . , ( 'f DATE te7 DATE DEPARTMENT HEAD Thomas Love Peacock is a little knovm but delightful nineteenth century English author . His seven works·- Headlong Hall (1815), Melincourt (1817), Hightmare Abbey (1818), Ma id Marian ( 1822), The Misfortun.es of Elphin (1829), Crochet Castle (1831), and Gryll Grange (1860 ) -- 1 Ian Jack calls satiric tales. Traditionally, these works have been referred to as novels end would qualify under Thrall and Hibbard 1 s handbook definition of a novel as any extended piece of prose fiction. -
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK by Tony Reeve
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK By Tony Reeve Thomas Love Peacock became a resident of Marlow in the summer of 1815 and had a house there until July 1819, a period of four years. During this time, he is best known as a friend and neighbour of the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, when they also lived in Marlow. Yet, in many ways, it is difficult to understand why they should have been friends. For example, Peacock was seven years older than Shelley, being born on 18 October 1785 at Weymouth in Dorset, the son of a London glass merchant. His father died in 1794 when Peacock was only 8 years of age, but in preparation for his death, his father purchased three annuities, which failed Thomas Love Peacock many years early. As a result, Peacock had to leave school at eleven years of age and take a job as a lowly clerk in the City of London. He had no secondary education at all, but was clearly of outstanding intelligence and managed to educate himself. He taught himself Latin, ancient Greek, French and Italian and became an expert on philosophy and the classic writers. Peacock had no expectations of an inheritance; he could not borrow money. When he got into debt, he worried about his bills and did his best to pay tradesmen. He was not a big man, but was slim and narrow-shouldered. He dressed very neatly and conventionally like a clerk, with a hat over a shock of dark hair. -
Peach and Peacock
Peach and Peacock BILL PEACH* Speaking at the Celebrating the Faculty of Arts function at the MacLaurin Hall last year, I mentioned that I had written an MA thesis on Thomas Love Peacock, the creator of novels about people with fanatical opinions who advanced them without listening to anyone else, and that I found this useful training when I later became compere of the ABC programme This Day Tonight. 1 Peacock usually found there was something to be said on both sides of a subject. This was the method by which he constructed his novels, and I found it relevant to remember that when I was trying to adjudicate a television debate. More relevant, though, was his repeated demonstration that people with a fixed idea in their heads are unwilling to be moved by any argument to the contrary. Ifreality does not fit their scheme, they will always bend reality until it fits. I often found that the only agreement I could get from disputants in a debate was agreement to have a drink in the Green Room afterwards. This was not unlike the way Peacock resolved the arguments in his novels, except that in the ABC Green Room we only occasionally moved on to the stage of bellowing drinking songs. Politicians were always the worst. There was a period in which Ministers refused to appear, following the example of Sir Robert Menzies, who saw no reason to submit himself to interrogation by insolent puppies from this new-fangled television device. When * Bill Peach graduatedfrom Sydney University BA (1956), Dip.Ed. -
The Development of Characterization Techniques in Thomas Love Peacock's Novels
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OCT 11 1961 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES IN THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK'S NOVELS Thesis Approved: / Dean of the Graduate School 472807 THE EE\fELOP!-iEN'l' OF' CHARACTERIZATIOrJ TECHWIQUES IW THOHil.S L0\1E PEACOCK'S NOVELS , BY IOLA H!JBBARD HALABY lt Bachelor of ltrts Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma 19.58 Suhni tted to the facu.1 ty of the Graduate School or the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of HA:3TE..R OF .AH.TS August, 1960 PREFAGE Thomas Love Peacock's literary career is a singular one in English history. Jlis publication dates span the average man's entire lifetime. His last novel, t-r.ritten during his seventy-fifth year, displays the same light humor and sharp wit. of his first, written some· fifty years earlier. A literary career or this length encompasses many innova tions of public interest and taste. but Thomas Love Peacock's novels remain constant in style and tone from 1818 to 1861. Thomas L:>ve Peacock's novels are commonly divided into bro groups, his tales which include ~ Marian and 1'.h2 Misfortunes .Q! Elphin, and his novels of "talk" Headlong~. Melincourt. Crotchet Casile, and Gr.yll Grange. !~ightmare fo.bbey is classified by one critic as his lone novel of "caricaturen and by others as merely another "conversation" novel. It is the singularity of these novels 1-mich has marked Peacock as a novelist set apart, and has caused one critic to remark, um the more because Peacock has no followers, he deserves to be read by those who look for fresh vistas in the forest or mind and a.re pleased by the untrodden track." It is these novels of 0 talkn which first aroused ·ll'lY interest. -
The Pavonian Shelley: a Study of Shelley in the Novels of Peacock
The Pavonian Shelley: a study of Shelley in the novels of Peacock Item Type text; Thesis-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Perper, Marion Eileen Bowman, 1922- Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 26/09/2021 22:40:14 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/317937 THE PAVONIAN SHELLEY: A STUDY OF SHELLEY IN THE NOVELS OF PEACOCK by Marion Eileen Perper A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 1966 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This thesis has been submitted in partial fulfillment of require ments for an advanced degree at The University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library„ Brief quotations from this thesis are allowable without special permissiong provided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in his judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, . however, permission must be obtained from the author. -
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock , Edited by Nicholas A
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03186-9 — Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock , Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky Frontmatter More Information the cambridge edition of the novels of THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK nightmare abbey © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03186-9 — Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock , Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky Frontmatter More Information the cambridge edition of the novels of THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK general editor: Freya Johnston, University of Oxford senior editorial advisor: Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Pennsylvania State University volumes in this series 1. Headlong Hall 2. Melincourt 3. Nightmare Abbey 4. Maid Marian 5. The Misfortunes of Elphin 6. Crotchet Castle 7. Gryll Grange © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03186-9 — Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock , Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky Frontmatter More Information Frontispiece A previously unpublished photograph of Peacock, taken by ‘an itinerant artist’ in July 1861 and sent to Charles Henry Brett of Belfast in a letter of 7 October 1861. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03186-9 — Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock , Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky Frontmatter More Information thomas love peacock NIGHTMARE ABBEY Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03186-9 — Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock , Edited by Nicholas A. Joukovsky Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. -
The Political and Social Satire of Thomas Love Peacock
THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SATIRE OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK A THESIS submitted in partial fulfilment for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS by JEAN ALICE GOULD LUMSDEN Montreal 1944 INDEX INTRODUCTION. Page 10 CHAPTER I. ARTS AND LETTERS. Page ZZ* CHAPTER II. RELIGION. Page 45. CHAPTER III. EDUCATION. Page 61. CHAPTER IV. POLITICS AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. Page 72. CHAPTER V. RACIAL PREJUDICES. Page 102. CONCLUSION. Page 115. INTRODUCTION Thomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth in October, 1785. His father was Samuel Peacock, a glass-merchant, carry ing on his trade in St. Paul's Churchyard. Nothing of any interest seems to be known of his family or himself. That he was in business in 1768 is certain, for many years later his son, Thomas, wrote the rough copy of a.farce, The Three Doc tors, on the blank pages of an old account book, whose cover was marked with the words "Day Book: 1768: Saml. Peacock". One of these pages indicates that Peacock, the author, was one day suffering from an attack of indolence or distraction, or that he had momentarily lost the urge to write. It is covered with scrawls of all sorts, capital letters, curves and other marks which make little or no sense. In the cor ner of the left margin, however, there is inscribed: "T. L. Peacock - 1811 1768 n ~45 " This not only furnishes evidence that The Three Doctors was written in 1811, but also contains what is probably the second- best autograph to be found in the manuscripts. One may pre sume that Samuel Peacock was still in business in 1785, for at the end of that year his son was baptised in London. -
The Relation of Thomas Love Peacock to His Period
+ 1- UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY ^ Class Book Volume Je 07-lOM ' *** '4- -iy,-. -^fe * Hi- 4 -r > ^- -.^ -f- p i. ^ 4 -'"''i^ -f 4 ^ 4 f 4 ^ 4 ^ ^ It f f if-', '' ' 4- J.- ^ THl^^ Ui:i.ATIOIV OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCIv TO HIS PKRIOI) <'<)RNKI>IA KTIIKI. WOOD. A. H. liHV.i TH1<:SIS FOR TIIK DlXiliKli: OF MAHTKU OF ARTS IN KNGI.ISII IN' THK OHA.DUATK SCHOOL 1)F THK l^NIVKRSITY OK II.I.I?JOIS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/relationofthomasOOwood Ml UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Way ?1 7 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY Cornelia Ethel Wood, A. B. Period ENTITLED The Felation of Thomas Love Peacock to his IS APPROVED BY ME AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF ];'a.ste.r of Arts '^^^^ HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF I'M?:...!?]^ THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK HISTORY F LIFE STYLE a. Dialogue, "b. Characterization. LOVE F H A T U R B HUMOR a. Puns. b. Comedy Situations. SATIRE Sooial. Political. Literary. r The Belation of Thomas Love Peocock to his Period Eihliography The Atlantic Menthly, December ,1906. "Thomas Love Peacock"by H.W.Boynton. The Atlantic Mtnthly, March, 1886. "Classic and Romantic"- "by Fredrick Henry Hedge The Contemporary Review, Vol. 25. P. 733 "Thomas Love Peacock"- by James Davie s. The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 142, P. 57. The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 68. P. 432. The Fortnightly F.eview Vol. 20, P. 189 George Eamett Smitl^ . " " Llttell's Liviii^: Vol. 126, P.