The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary ReflectionsAllan Conrad Christensen University of Delaware Press, 2004 - 258 pagina's On the occasion of the bicentenary of Edward Bulwer Lytton's birth, seventeen scholars from five countries have contributed essays devoted to many aspects of his career. After the first essay that analyzes the reasons for Bulwer's extraordinary reputation in his own day, twelve of the essays focus primarily upon one or more of the novels, from Falkland (1827) to Kenelm Chillingly (1873). Other novels examined include Bulwer's The Last Days of Pompeii, The Coming Race, The Parisians, and the Caxton trilogy, as well as his Newgate novels. In the volume are also considerations of the seminal treatise England and the English (1833), the incomplete history of Athens (1837), and the achievement of Bulwer Lytton as Colonial Secretary (1858-59). Two essays, one written by a descendant of Bulwer, deal with the overshadowing disaster of his life, the marriage to Rosina Wheeler, herself a novelist whose novels sought to undermine his. Bulwer emerges from this collection of essays as a challengingly complex but coherent figure that merits the respect of contemporary students of the Victorian phenomenon. |
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton First Baron Lytton of Knebworth 18031873 | 19 |
Note on Citations and Editions | 25 |
Bulwers Reputation | 29 |
Bulwer Carlyle and the Fashionable Novel | 38 |
Bulwers Fictions of Crime | 54 |
Narrative Perspective and Crime Fiction | 68 |
Bulwers Godwinian Myth | 78 |
Irish Beauty Satirist Tormented Victorian Wife 18021882 | 147 |
The Battle of the Books of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton | 159 |
Bulwer Lytton and The Cult of the Colonies | 174 |
Reading the Caxton Trilogy as Domestic Fiction | 184 |
Writing and Unwriting in The Caxtons My Novel and A Strange Story | 200 |
Defending the Empire in The Coming Race | 212 |
The Parisians and La Debacle | 222 |
The Bildungsroman Revoked | 236 |
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