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Falkland (novel)

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Falkland
AuthorEdward Bulwer-Lytton
LanguageEnglish
GenreGothic romance
PublisherHenry Colburn
Publication date
1827
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

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

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Falkland, a young English gentleman, falls in love with Emily Mandeville, a married woman. To his horror he has a premonition of her death.

References

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  1. ^ Wilson p.33
  2. ^ Mulvey-Roberts p.15
  3. ^ Huckvale p.16-17
  4. ^ Huckvale p.18

Bibliography

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  • 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.