The subverting vision of Bulwer Lytton
Subtitle: bicentenary reflections
By: edited and with an introduction by Allan Conrad Christensen.
Contributors: Christensen, Allan Conrad.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Newark; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
Table of contents: title: Bulwer's reputation / Andrew Brown; title: Bulwer, Carlyle, and the fashionable novel / Richard Cronin; title: Against the law : Bulwer's fictions of crime / Heather Worthington; title: In the courtroom of Bulwer's Newgate novels : narrative perspective and crime fiction / Jonathan H. Grossman; title: Bulwer's Godwininian myth / Lawrence Poston; title: England and the English : perceiving self and other / Joachim Mathieu; title: "At home" with the Romans : domestic archaeology in the last days of Pompeii / Angus Easson; title: Lions of basalt : Bulwer, Italy, and the crucible of reform / Esther Schor; title: The historical context of Athens : its rise and fall / Catherine Phillips; title: Rosina Bulwer Lytton : Irish beauty, satirist, tormented Victorian wife, 1802-1882 / Lord Cobbold; title: Writing for revenge : the battle of the books of Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton / Marie Mulvey-Roberts; title: Bulwer Lytton and "the cult of the colonies" / Charles W. Snyder; title: Between men : reading the Caxtons trilogy as domestic fiction / Peter W. Sinnema; title: Writing and unwriting in The Caxtons, "My novel," and A strange story / Allan Conrad Christensen; title: Bulwer Lytton and imperial gothic : defending the empire in the coming race / Lillian Nayder; title: The last days of the Second Empire : the Parisians and la débâcle / Philip Rand; title: Kenelm Chillingly : the bildungsroman revoked / Walter Göbel.