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تابع...رواية رقم 11- كابوس الدير، للمؤلف توماس لوف بيكوك



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- Published in the same year as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey is not just a burlesque of the Gothic novel, but a sustained critique of what he regarded as 'the darkness and misanthropy of modern literature.'


- His witty satire on 'the spirit of the age' can best be understood through an awareness of its complex intertextual relations with other works of Romantic literature.


- This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate.


- Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock's contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr. Glowry's son Scythrop (also modeled on a famous Romantic, Peacock's friend Percy Bysshe Shelley) locks himself up in a tower where he reads German tragedies and transcendental philosophy and develops a "passion for reforming the world.


- " Disappointed in love, a sorrowful Scythrop decides the only thing to do is to commit suicide, but circumstances persuade him to instead follow his father in a love of misanthropy and Madeira.


- In addition to satire and comic romance, Nightmare Abbey presents a biting critique of the texts we view as central to British romanticism. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a range of illuminating contemporary documents on the novel's reception and its German and British literary contexts. A selection of Peacock's critical and autobiographical writings is also included. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition

-The book is a satire of the romantic period set against a gothic, sometimes morose backdrop.

-There is little by the way of plot (the novel has more in common with Plato’s Symposium in this respect) but Peacock writes to clash ideas – art and science, classical and romantic, comedy and ennui – which offers fantastic scope for imagery and creativity.
-The concept is reflected through the clash visuals – the angel, representative of the misanthropic darkness of the cast of characters

who carry influence over the younger protagonist, is juxtaposed with bold pink to visually reference the satire.
-There are also various spot details to mirror and/or reference the many fantastic one-liners so that the cover, like the book, has
sublte treasures buried within.