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Volume 05, Number 1 (1980)

Peacock and The Peacock Papers

  • Thomas E. Tausky
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1980-01-01

Abstract

Leo Simpson's The Peacock Papers reproduces the prose style and the character types of Thomas Love Peacock's novels. Simpson's characters, like Peacock's, are a mixture of satirized individuals and satirized general tendencies. Many notable literary figures are among Simpson's cast of characters. It is possible that the anti-realist, experimental fiction of the late twentieth century owes something to Thomas Love Peacock.