Caxtoniana

A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners

By: Edward Bulwer Lytton

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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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On the increased attention to outward nature in the decline of life
On the differences between the urban and rural temperament
On monotony in occupation as a source of happiness
On the normal clairvoyance of the imagination
On intellectual conduct as distinct from moral: the 'superior man'
On shyness
On the management of money (addressed chiefly to the young)
On rhythm in prose, as conducive to precision and clearness
On style and diction
Hints on moral culture
On the moral effect of writers
On the distinction between active thought and reverie
On the spirit in which new theories should be received
On essay-writing in general, and these essays in particular
The sanguine temperament
The organ of weight
The sympathetic temperament
Faith and charity; or, the union, in practical life, of sincerity and conciliation
Upon the efficacy of praise (in supplement to the preceding essay)
On self-control
The modern misanthrope
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