The English Aristocracy and Empire Building in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's1 Novel The Caxtons

This paper proposes to examine the role of the English aristocracy in the colonial process and in empire building as shown in The Caxtons, a novel written by the nineteenth-century novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton and published in 1849. The novel will be contextualized within a larger framework of other literary and non-literary texts.