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...Christian Lewis Abstract In Miss Mackenzie , Anthony Trollope attempted to write a marriage plot without love or romance but admitted that he was unable to do so. This essay argues that Trollope's formal experiment developing the “anti-romantic” marriage plot did not end with Miss Mackenzie...

...Lauren Byler Anthony Trollope's infamous obsession with composing novels in as efficient a manner as possible founders on the rhetorical excess of the metaphors he employs to signify utility: shoes and shoe making. Like the ornate metaphors for utility that illustrate and obstruct Trollope's theory...

...Oriah Amit Abstract This article explores Anthony Trollope's attempts to answer a question that preoccupied Britain's Liberal party in the second half of the nineteenth century: Should all subjects have an equal right to privacy? Trollope's Palliser novels Phineas Finn (1867–68) and The Eustace...

...Gordon Bigelow Anthony Trollope's first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847), is concerned with social and political conflict in rural Ireland; it is marked by episodes of extreme violence and by a generally episodic and ad hoc narrative form. In the early 1840s, when Trollope began writing...

...Monica F. Cohen This essay seeks to situate Anthony Trollope's short 1866 novel Nina Balatka in the context of the market conditions that characterized Victorian literary entertainment. These market conditions, which included a proliferating number of reprinting vehicles, accommodated copying...

... of the cognitive standards of liberal citizenship, statistical sciences around the time of the 1867 Reform Act reversed the usual priority given to the individual over the collective, redefining the self as a compilation of demographic and social information. When Anthony Trollope's 1867 Phineas Finn performs...

... addressed doubt and chose to know its reality. “Worlding” literary forms of knowing with legal/philosophical ones, through a reading of Anthony Trollope's Is He Popenjoy? (1878), I argue that realism knows by deciding to know . A focus on the presumptions—most prominently the presumption of legitimacy...

... , Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now , and George Eliot's Middlemarch . © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . New York: Knopf, 1984 . Dickens , Charles . Little Dorrit . 1857. London: Penguin, 2003...

...Michael Dango This article argues that the form of Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn mediates sociality without the resources of interiority. This has important ramifications for understanding the politics of the novel by way of the kinds of relationality it makes available between characters...

..., they achieve fulfillment not in individualist plots but in group activities and brimful houses. The most influential Victorian family chronicler was Charlotte Mary Yonge. Yonge's episodic form was taken up by Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney. These writers’ chronicles...

... exceptions, such as the Circumlocution Office in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit or Anthony Trollope's Three Clerks ). Although squarely set within the “governing-class spirit” of Westminster and populated with a bevy of civil servants, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway tends to be read as maintaining a strict...

... America: Four Novels . New York: Peter Lang, 1993 . Evans , D. Moirer . Speculative Notes and Notes on Speculation, Ideal and Real . New York: Burt Franklin, 1968 . Franklin , J. Jeffrey . “Anthony Trollope Meets Pierre Bourdieu: The Conversion of Capital as Plot in the Mid-Victorian...

... as a world economic power, to the beginning of the twentieth, when this authority was ebbing. Beginning with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), she ends with Henry James’s The Golden Bowl (1904), examining works by Frances Trol- lope, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant along the way. Michie...

... Films, 1953. McCormack , W.J. Introduction. The Eustace Diamonds . By Anthony Trollope. New York: Oxford UP, 1983 . vii –xxviii. Mill , John Stuart . “The Subjection of Women.” 1869. Essays on Sex Equality by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill . Ed. Alice S. Rossi Chicago: U...

... ever quite owning any. In chapter 3, "Laborer and Hire: Trollope, Northcote-Trevelyan, and The Three Clerks," Shuman turns from school examinations to the competitive examinations for civil service posts proposed by the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1853. Focusing on Anthony Trollope's...

... mailboxes (this last an invention credited to novelist and postal inspector Anthony Trollope). The result was that “the mail suddenly came to offer a figure for a comprehensive society, with a multiplicity of classes and voices” (42), a figure produced in the shared recognition of massive amounts...

... practitioners as George Eliot and Anthony Trollope become in Jaffe's readings the sticky stuff of desire and the fetish: we know that the effects produced are not real, and yet. . . . Jaffe identifies the formal devices, such as frames (windows, doors, and houses) and metonymy (things, or inanimate objects...

... Kong.” Thirty-two years later, though, Anthony Trollope surveyed the pink-dyed map and opined that “no doubt the power of the country and the prestige which belongs to its name are based on its colonial and Indian empire . . . but . . . we have got all that can do us good” (8, 29). Victoria’s...

... Cavell, as well as a host of nineteenth-century mathematicians and logicians, and contemporary literary theorists. Wright's basic claim is this: Charlotte Brontë's, George Eliot's, Anthony Trollope's, and Henry James's attempts to represent their characters' erotic investments generate strange discursive...

... Women’s Property Act (1870). None of the five novels discussed refers explicitly to coverture, but Ablow claims that it constitutes the implicitly accepted framework of married reality within each text. Although only Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right (1869) is directly responding...