Publisher's Synopsis
This text includes an outline chronology of Thomas Love Peacock's life; descriptions of the characters in his novels, plays, and fragments; essays on "Peacock on clerics, libraries and his attractive ladies" and "Peacock and Charles Lamb"; recommended introductions to Peacock and a list of his works including recent editions; an extensive list of book and magazine articles about him; and an appendix dealing with those contemporaries upon whom Peacock may have based some of his characters, and giving the views of the principal writers on Peacock.
