A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre
Title | A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre PDF eBook |
Author | David Huckvale |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2015-12-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476622795 |
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.
Dark and Stormy Night
Title | Dark and Stormy Night PDF eBook |
Author | Dale A. Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
Dark Dreams
Title | Dark Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-05-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780989181020 |
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Title | Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2154 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN |
Dark and Stormy
Title | Dark and Stormy PDF eBook |
Author | Danielle Bullen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
A Dark and Stormy Day
Title | A Dark and Stormy Day PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Bradbury |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780974883069 |
Northanger Abbey
Title | Northanger Abbey PDF eBook |
Author | Val McDermid |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802123015 |
"First published in Great Britain in 2014 by The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"-- Title page verso.