"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
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
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