A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9948-9 (ISBN)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who coined the terms "the great unwashed" and "the pen is mightier than the sword"--is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. Rider Haggard and Madame Blavatsky, among others. His radicalism was applauded by William Godwin, the father of both Mary Shelley and the anarchist movement, and his ideas about power foreshadowed those of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Fascinated by crime, Bulwer-Lytton was an outspoken critic of his society, both in his novels and throughout his political career. Equally fascinated by paranormal phenomena, he wrote two of the most important occult fantasies in English literature and set the agenda of the Society for Psychical Research.
His historical romance The Last Days of Pompeii has inspired several movies and a star-studded television series, while his stately home at Knebworth has provided brooding Gothic backdrops for many other films. This book covers Bulwer-Lytton's novels in detail, exploring their influence on writers and film makers and, via Richard Wagner's operatic adaptation of Rienzi, the catastrophe of Adolf Hitler.
David Huckvale has worked as a researcher, writer and presenter for BBC Radio and as a lecturer for various universities in England. He lives in rural Bedfordshire.
Table of Contents
Author’s Note
Introduction
One—Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
Two—Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman (1828)
Three—The Disowned (1828)
Four—Devereux (1829)
Five—Paul Clifford (1830)
Six—Eugene Aram: A Tale (1832)
Seven—Godolphin (1833)
Eight—The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) and The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1834)
Nine—Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes (1835)
Ten—Ernest Maltravers (1836) and Alice (1838)
First Interlude—Leila; or, The Siege of Granada (1838), Zicci: A Tale (1838) and Early Victorian Occultism
Eleven—Night and Morning (1841)
Twelve—Zanoni (1842)
Thirteen—The Last of the Barons (1843)
Fourteen—Lucretia; or, The Children of the Night (1846)
Fifteen—Harold—The Last of the Saxon Kings (1848)
Second Interlude—Bulwer-Lytton’s Realist Period: The Caxtons: A Family Picture (1849), My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life (1853), What Will He Do with It? (1858), and “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain” (1859)
Sixteen—A Strange Story (1862)
Seventeen—The Coming Race (1871)
Epilogue: Kenelm Chillingly—His Adventures and Opinions (1873) and Knebworth House
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Zusatzinfo | 27 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
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Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 367 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7864-9948-6 / 0786499486 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-9948-9 / 9780786499489 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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