Bulwer-Lytton's Literary Relations — Sources, Influences, Confluences, Reputation (original) (raw)

"Would you mind teaching a . . . course next year in the novels of Bulwer-Lytton?"

"You have to be joking. I have never read Bulwer-Lytton. I have never even discussed reading Bulwer-Lytton, except with some strange student who used to turn up every seven years with another thousand pages on the deveopment of the historical novel. Ah, I see, The Last Days of Pompeii is now considered relevant. Perhaps it is, at that." — Poetic Justice (1870) by Amanda Cross (Carolyn Heilbrun)

General

• Will Bulwer-Lytton last? How It Looked in 1872
• The Legacy of Sir Edward G. D. Bulwer-Lytton

Predecessors

• Bulwer-Lytton and Horace
• Zanoni and William Godwin
• Bulwer-Lytton on William Godwin
• Possible allusion to Coleridge in Zanoni

British Contemporaries

• Edward Bulwer and Charles Dickens
• Bulwer-Lytton or Dickens — Can you tell the difference? — Mikhail Simkin's online quiz at UCLA
• Bulwer-Lytton's [Only] Two Points of Superiority over Dickens and Thackeray
• George Eliot
• Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1871) and Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872)
• Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race and the utopian novels of Wells
• Thackeray's attitude toward Bulwer-Lytton
• "His range was so wide": The Genres of Bulwer-Lytton's Fiction

Transatlantic Contemporaries

• Poe's Views of Bulwer-Lytton's Writings
• Points of Comparison: Bulwer-Lytton's Paul Clifford and Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"
• From Novel to Tale, A Transatlantic Transposition
• The American periodical publication of A Strange Story

Reception and Reputation

• “without doubt, the most popular writer now living” — American Quarterly Review in early 1830s li>Reception Godolphin in early 1830s

Victorian Web Authors E. Bulwer-<br\>Lytton</br\> Works

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