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Headlong Hall is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock, his first long work of fiction, written in 1815 and published in 1816. As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humor and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. The ...
19. Jan. 2012 · by. Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866; Baron, Michael, 1947-; Slater, Michael; Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866. Gryll Grange. 1987. Publication date. 1987. Publisher. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
Today, Peacock’s reputation rests almost exclusively on the merits of his seven novels, four of which—Headlong Hall, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, and Maid Marian—appeared in quick succession between 1815 and 1822. The remaining three—The Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle, and Gryll Grange—were written and published at more ...
Headlong Hall (1816), Melincourt (1817), and Nightmare Abbey (1818) are sharp accounts of contemporary intellectual and cultural fashions, as are the two much later fictions in which Peacock reused this successful formula, Crotchet Castle (1831) and Gryll Grange (1860–61). Read More.
3.40. 5 ratings1 review. Headlong Hall (1815) and Gryll Grange (1860) are the first and last of Thomas Love Peacock's highly distinctive satirical novels. Headlong Hall is a direct product of Peacock's membership of the circle of writers and intellectuals around the poet Shelley.
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Castle is less acid than Melincourt so in turn Gryll Grange is kinder than Crotchet Castle. But mellowing by no means connotes mush, even though the genial bottle-buzzer, MacBorrowdale, contrasts sharply with the sponging, boor, MacLaurel of Headlong Hall, and the prating bore MacQuedy (son of a demonstration) of Crotchet Castle. Despite ...
Thomas Love Peacock, satirist, essayist, and poet, was a close friend of Shelley and played an important part in the "Romantic Movement" of the early 19th century. Headlong Hall and Gryll...
