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- Title
Bulwer-Lytton's "Pelham": The Disciplinary Dandy and the Art of Government.
- Authors
Bachman, Maria K.
- Abstract
Presents literary criticism which examines the political purpose of the novel "Pelham" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Analysis of the liberal ideology embodied in the novel; Belief that Bulwer had written the novel to denounce the falsity of fashionable life and to construct liberalism as a public and private ethos; Significance of the novel in England's post-Regency society.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; PELHAM (Book); LYTTON, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873; POLITICS in literature; POLITICAL fiction; LIBERALISM
- Publication
Texas Studies in Literature & Language, 2005, Vol 47, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0040-4691
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/tsl.2005.0009