V knige rassmotrena evolyutsiya vospriyatiya tvorchestva angliyskogo pisatelya E. Bul'vera-Littona v Rossii 30-50-kh gg. KhIKh veka, v svyazi s chem issleduyutsya osobennosti retseptsii romanov Bul'vera-Littona russkoy kritikoy i zhurnalistikoy, ustanavlivaetsya fakt vliyaniya tvorchestva angliyskogo pisatelya na formirovanie poetiki russkogo romana i stanovlenie massovoy literatury v Rossii 1830-1850-kh gg., a takzhe vyyasnyaetsya znachenie prozaicheskikh perevodov iz Bul'vera-Littona dlya protsessa evolyutsii estetiki i poetiki otechestvennogo perevoda.Kniga prednaznachena dlya prepodavateley, studentov i aspirantov filologicheskikh fakul'tetov, a takzhe shirokogo kruga chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya problemami literaturnykh vzaimosvyazey, perevodovedeniya i istoriey russkoy literatury.