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Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830-1847

AUTHOR: Edward Bulwer Lytton
ISBN: 0415143837
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Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830-1847
- Book Review, by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Cult Criminals is a set of six early Victorian novels "sensationally popular" with readers and of immense influence in the development of the novel form. The novels in this collection scandalized the Victorians by glamorizing criminals and led to a bitter literary controversy between Dickens and Thackeray, who damned the former's Oliver Twist and Barnaby Rudge as "Newgate" novels. At the heart of the "Newgate" debate lay questions concerning the moral and social function of the novel, the relationship between romance and realism in fiction, and whether crime should be portrayed in fiction at all.

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Book Review

Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830-1847
- Book Reviews, by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830-1847

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Cult Criminals is a set of six early Victorian novels "sensationally popular" with readers and of immense influence in the development of the novel form. The novels in this collection scandalized the Victorians by glamorizing criminals and led to a bitter literary

controversy between Dickens and Thackeray, who damned the former's Oliver Twist and Barnaby Rudge as "Newgate" novels. At the heart of the "Newgate" debate lay questions concerning the moral and social function of the novel, the relationship between romance and realism in fiction, and

whether crime should be portrayed in fiction at all.

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