Buch, Englisch, 676 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 814 g
A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners
Buch, Englisch, 676 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 814 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
ISBN: 978-1-108-07280-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
In 1849 Edward Bulwer Lytton published the popular novel The Caxtons, about an eccentric family who claimed descent from the printer William Caxton. Its hero, Pisistratus Caxton, was named as the author of two subsequent works, My Novel (1853) and What Will He Do With It? (1859) which were less successful. Bulwer Lytton was referring to those novels when he named this two-volume collection of literary and philosophical essays Caxtoniana, first published in 1863 and here reprinted from the 1864 edition. They were the result of his wide reading on scientific, philosophical and occult subjects which he made use of in several of his works, particularly the supernatural A Strange Story (1862). Many of the essays in Caxtoniana deal with morality and the artist, others with literary style, psychology, politics and readership. Lytton claimed that these subjects were expressed in the form of romance in the 'Caxton' novels.
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Volume 1:
1. On the increased attention to outward nature in the decline of life
2. On the differences between the urban and rural temperament
3. On monotony in occupation as a source of happiness
4. On the normal clairvoyance of the imagination
5. On intellectual conduct as distinct from moral: the 'superior man'
6. On shyness
7. On the management of money (addressed chiefly to the young)
8. On rhythm in prose, as conducive to precision and clearness
9. On style and diction
10. Hints on moral culture
11. On the moral effect of writers
12. On the distinction between active thought and reverie
13. On the spirit in which new theories should be received
14. On essay-writing in general, and these essays in particular
15. The sanguine temperament
16. The organ of weight
17. The sympathetic temperament
18. Faith and charity
or, the union, in practical life, of sincerity and conciliation
19. Upon the efficacy of praise (in supplement to the preceding essay)
20. On self-control
21. The modern misanthrope.
Volume 2:
1. On the increased attention to outward nature in the decline of life
2. On the differences between the urban and rural temperament
3. On monotony in occupation as a source of happiness
4. On the normal clairvoyance of the imagination
5. On intellectual conduct as distinct from moral: the 'superior man'
6. On shyness
7. On the management of money (addressed chiefly to the young)
8. On rhythm in prose, as conducive to precision and clearness
9. On style and diction
10. Hints on moral culture
11. On the moral effect of writers
12. On the distinction between active thought and reverie
13. On the spirit in which new theories should be received
14. On essay-writing in general, and these essays in particular
15. The sanguine temperament
16. The organ of weight
17. The sympathetic temperament
18. Faith and charity
or, the union, in practical life, of sincerity and conciliation
19. Upon the efficacy of praise (in supplement to the preceding essay)
20. On self-control
21. The modern misanthrope.
