Falkland (novel)
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| Author | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Gothic romance |
| Publisher | Henry Colburn |
Publication date | 1827 |
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Falkland is an 1827 Gothic novella by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton.[1] [2] It was his first published novel and took inspiration from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther.[3] The protagonist was likely partly based on Bulwer-Lytton himself. The novel enjoyed success in Germany, but was criticised in Britain as immoral.[4] It was followed by Pelham in 1828, in which he switched to the fashionable silver fork genre, which established him as leading writing in Britain and Europe.
Synopsis[edit]
Falkland, a young English gentleman, falls in love with Emily Mandeville, a married woman. To his horror he has a premonition of her death.
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Bibliography[edit]
- Adburgham, Alison. Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840. Faber & Faber, 2012.
- Huckvale, David. A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre: Crime, Magic and Power in the Novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton. McFarland, 2015.
- Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. The Handbook of the Gothic. Springer, 2016.
- Wilson, Cheryl A. Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel. Routledge, 6 Oct 2015.
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