The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton

The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton

Author: Allan Conrad Christensen

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780874138566

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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.


Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel

Author: Adam Abraham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1108493076

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Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.


In Lady Audley's Shadow

In Lady Audley's Shadow

Author: Saverio Tomaiuolo

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0748643672

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This book is devoted to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's complex relationship with the three main Victorian literary genres: the Gothic, the Detective and the Realist novel. Using Braddon's bestselling sensation fiction Lady Audley's Secret as a paradigmatic novel and as a 'haunting' textual presence across her literary career, this study provides a fertile critical reading of a wide range of Braddon's novels and short stories. Through an analysis of Braddon's negotiations with Victorian narrative, ideological and cultural issues, this monograph offers readers a refreshing view of gender, female identity and subjectivity, the treatment of insanity, questions related to technology and progress, the impact of evolutionism and Darwinism, the intersemiotic dialogue between pictorial art and novel-writing, the role of the (female) writer in the new literary market and the changing notion of capital in an increasingly fluid social context. Braddon's manipulation of Victorian literary codes and conventions proves that she was something more than a mere sensation writer and that her primary role in the nineteenth-century literary scene has to be reaffirmed. Drawing on a wide range of textual materials and literary sources, the book foregrounds Braddon's constant and sometimes ambivalent dialogue with her times, and with ours as well.


Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867

Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867

Author: M. O'Cinneide

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230583326

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Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.


The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 1

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton Vol 1

Author: Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1040249701

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In 1858, Rosina Bulwer Lytton was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum by her husband, the eminent Victorian politician and novelist, Edward Bulwer Lytton. After the disintegration of their marriage, Rosina wrote letters to prominent figures in which she revealed details about Edward's mistresses and illegitimate children.