Author: | Thomas Love Peacock | ISBN: | 9781411452770 |
Publisher: | Barnes & Noble | Publication: | May 3, 2011 |
Imprint: | Barnes & Noble | Language: | English |
Author: | Thomas Love Peacock |
ISBN: | 9781411452770 |
Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
Publication: | May 3, 2011 |
Imprint: | Barnes & Noble |
Language: | English |
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.”
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.”