The subverting vision of Bulwer Lytton : bicentenary reflections

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    • Christensen, Allan Conrad

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The subverting vision of Bulwer Lytton : bicentenary reflections

edited and with an introduction by Allan Conrad Christensen

University of Delaware Press, c2004

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"Most of the articles in this volume originated as papers presented at a three-day conference entitled 'Bulwer Lytton 2000,' held at the Institute for English Studies, University of London, in July 2000"--Introd

Includes index

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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.

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