Nightmare Abbey【電子書籍】[ Thomas Love Peacock ]

＜p＞＜em＞“All philosophers, who find＜br /＞ Some favourite system to their mind,＜br /＞ In every point to make it fit,＜br /＞ Will force all nature to submit...”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Nightmare Abbey,＜/em＞ (1818) concerns the unhappy love interests of one Scythrop Glowry, as those interests take shape at various times in the persons of Miss Marionetta O’Carroll and Miss Celinda Toobad.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Do these characters represent deliberate portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his first wife, Harriet, and Mary Shelley?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The resemblances are, at the very least, thought provoking.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Scythrop, whenever he is not moping in his tower over one woman or another (and he spends most of his time doing just that), gives vent to his “passion for reforming the world.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞He writes a pamphlet titled “Philosophical Gas; or, a Project for a General Illumination of the Human Mind.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞This “deep scheme for a thorough repair of the crazy fabric of human nature” sells a total of seven copies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜stron．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る