ABSTRACT
1818
Extracts from an article, ‘An Essay on Fashionable Literature’, by Peacock, written in 1818 but never published (taken from A.B.Young, ‘T.L.Peacock’s “Essay on Fashionable Literature”’, Notes and Queries, II 2nd series (2 July 1910), 4–5, II 2nd series (23 July 1910), 62–63).
For a more humorous approach by Peacock, see No. 44.
Immediately before the first passage, Peacock has been discussing the instability of fashionable popularity.
