A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe

The American scholar Burton R. Pollin established literary connections between Edgar Allan Poe and the Victorian English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, tracing the influence the latter exerted over many of Poe’s tales (1965;1996; 2000). Similarly, Allan Conrad Christensen stated that Bulwer-Lytton was...

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Autor: Miquel Baldellou, Marta
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edgar Allan Poe
Translation
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spelling A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan PoeMiquel Baldellou, MartaEdward Bulwer-LyttonEdgar Allan PoeTranslationThe American scholar Burton R. Pollin established literary connections between Edgar Allan Poe and the Victorian English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, tracing the influence the latter exerted over many of Poe’s tales (1965;1996; 2000). Similarly, Allan Conrad Christensen stated that Bulwer-Lytton was one of the writers that had exerted a most powerful influence on Poe’s early prose (2004). Moreover, as a literary critic, Poe also reviewed many of Bulwer-Lytton’s novels and declared himself an admirer of the English writer (1835; 1836; 1840; 1841a; 1841b; 1842). In 1830, when Poe was expelled from West Point Academy, Bulwer-Lytton was already a highly acclaimed writer about to publish Paul Clifford; the novel that inaugurated his cycle of Newgate fiction which incorporated the novelty of featuring a criminal as the hero of the story. This characteristic would be widely displayed in many of Edgar Allan Poe’s subsequent short-stories such as “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Black Cat”, “The Imp of the Perverse”, or “The Cask of Amontillado.” Taking these precedents into consideration, this article aims at gaining insight into the intertextuality established between Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe, identifying thematic links and disparities through a comparative analysis of Bulwer-Lytton’s Paul Clifford and Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, as well as examining the idiosyncratic characteristics which differentiate the novel and the short-story in nineteenth-century England and AmericaPortuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA)201920192010info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67481http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67481reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://sites.google.com/site/opcitapeaa/issuesOp.Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies, 2010, núm. 12, p.223-239cc-by (c) Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), 2010info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/674812026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
spellingShingle A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
Miquel Baldellou, Marta
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edgar Allan Poe
Translation
title_short A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
title_full A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
title_fullStr A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
title_sort A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Translation
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Edgar Allan Poe
Translation
description The American scholar Burton R. Pollin established literary connections between Edgar Allan Poe and the Victorian English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, tracing the influence the latter exerted over many of Poe’s tales (1965;1996; 2000). Similarly, Allan Conrad Christensen stated that Bulwer-Lytton was one of the writers that had exerted a most powerful influence on Poe’s early prose (2004). Moreover, as a literary critic, Poe also reviewed many of Bulwer-Lytton’s novels and declared himself an admirer of the English writer (1835; 1836; 1840; 1841a; 1841b; 1842). In 1830, when Poe was expelled from West Point Academy, Bulwer-Lytton was already a highly acclaimed writer about to publish Paul Clifford; the novel that inaugurated his cycle of Newgate fiction which incorporated the novelty of featuring a criminal as the hero of the story. This characteristic would be widely displayed in many of Edgar Allan Poe’s subsequent short-stories such as “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Black Cat”, “The Imp of the Perverse”, or “The Cask of Amontillado.” Taking these precedents into consideration, this article aims at gaining insight into the intertextuality established between Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe, identifying thematic links and disparities through a comparative analysis of Bulwer-Lytton’s Paul Clifford and Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, as well as examining the idiosyncratic characteristics which differentiate the novel and the short-story in nineteenth-century England and America
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