...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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—that...

... , 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 and...

... thinking is registered in novels and political essays from across the century, from Edgeworth’s national tales and John Stuart Mill’s political essays to the novels of Anthony Trollope, George Moore, and George Mer- edith. In addition to charting this change and analyzing the many complexities of...

... 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...

... without 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...

... starting to assert itself 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...

..., and the eventual adoption of public 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...

... 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, including...

... Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010), pp. 208, cloth, $36.00. In 1842 Victoria reported that Prince Albert was “much amused at my having got the Island of Hong Kong.” Thirty-two years later, though, Anthony Trollope surveyed the pink-dyed map and opined that “no doubt...

...-London 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...

... a half dozen novels by Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence. Given this description of Jarvis's central term, some readers will wonder why she invokes the concept of masochism at all, since attending to erotic delay as a form of heightened heterosexual arousal allows...

... Bridges’s Adventures of a Bank Note and Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy. Her main analysis ends with Anthony Trollope, but surprisingly not with his novel that deals most directly with issues of high finance and credit, The Way We Live Now. She is at her most informative when...

... between the thrill and the yawn in serial fiction by Anthony Trollope and Patrick O'Brian (whose Master and Commander is now reaching a broader audience), the oscillation between engagement and boredom (all that recapitula- tion, mid series, for the sake of the uninitiated reader). In a chapter...

... uncertain of our sense of self. Jones brings together a diverse set of novels, including Wilkie Collins’s No Name, Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her?, and George Meredith’s The Egoist, and shows how these novels pose a problem for the reader by calling into question our sense of our own subject...

... (1857), and the Married 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...