Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 1946 Sensationalism of Bulwer Lytton Mary Bernice McGrath Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation McGrath, Mary Bernice, "Sensationalism of Bulwer Lytton" (1946). Master's Theses. 279. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/279 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1946 Mary Bernice McGrath THE SENSATIONALISM OF BULWER LYTTON by Sister Mary Bernice McGrath. S•. C.. A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master or Arts in Loyola University J.une 1946 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. LITERARY TASTES OF THE AGE ••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1 Eighteenth oentury romantioism, realism, and propagandism still prevalent--Effeot of demooraoy, soienoe, and imperialism on literature--Bulwer's oontemporaries- Literary trends of the time refleoted in Lytton's own works--The influenoe of Mrs. Radoliffe, Byron, Godwin, the oooult, Soott and the historioal romanoe, the .fashionable, domestio and realistio novel. II. DEVELOPMENT OF SENSATIONALISM ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 27 Romantio Movement gave rise to imaginative produotions- The Gothio tradition through Mrs. Radoliffe and Byron to Bulwer Lytton--Fashionable baokground - a basis for sensation novel of later date--The appeal of the oooult, the mysterious, and the fantastio.