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Nightmare Abbey

Appendix A: The Reception of Nightmare Abbey

1. The Monthly Review 90 (November 1819)
2. The Literary Gazette 99 (12 December 1818)
3. The Tickler 1.1 (1 December 1818)
4. The European Magazine, and London Review 75 (March 1819)
5. From James Spedding, Edinburgh Review 68 (January 1839)
6. The Examiner (28 May 1837)

Appendix B: German Literature

1. From Karl Grosse, “The Marquis of Grosse” (1796)
2. From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stella: A Play for Lovers (1774)
3. From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
4. From Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff (1813)

Appendix C: Literary Contexts

1. From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
2. From William Godwin, Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England (1817)
3. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual (1816)
4. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1817)
6. From Percy Bysshe Shelley, Author’s Preface to The Revolt of Islam (1818)
7. From George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Corsair, A Tale (1814)
8. From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth (1818)
9. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Dedication to Don Juan (1833)
10. From William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)

Appendix D: Peacock’s Critical and Autobiographical Writings

1. From “An Essay on Fashionable Literature” (1818)
2. From “The Four Ages of Poetry” (1820)
3. From “French Comic Romances” (1835)
4. Preface to Volume 57 of Bentley’s Standard Novels (1837)
5. “Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House” (1837)
6. From “Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley” (1860)

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