Melincourt (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) - Thomas Love Peacock

Melincourt (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Thomas Love Peacock

  • Release Date: 2011-05-03
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

Description

This second (1817) novel by the English satirist takes on the electoral system of the time, in a plot about a civilized yet silent orangutan elected Member of Parliament for the “rotten-borough” Onevote. The novel also serves as a scathing treatise on romanticism, primitivism, and the idea of the “noble savage.”

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