Falkland (novel) explained

Falkland
Author:	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Gothic romance
Publisher:	Henry Colburn
Release Date:	1827
Media Type:	Print

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

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

Bibliography

• 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.

Notes and References

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