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Joachim Mathieu

Edward Bulwer-Lytton‘s England and the English

A Description of England in the ‘Age of Reform‘

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

If today Edward Bulwer-Lytton is largely remembered „as one of the dullest and most serious of Victorians“, in the nineteenth century he had been one of the most popular writers. This study discusses Bulwer’s England and the English which was published in 1833. One year prior to the book’s publication the first parliamentary Reform Act had been passed,…