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"A Passion to Live in this Splendid Past": Canadian and Australian Autobiographies of Childhood
Peacock and The Peacock Papers
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