...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...

... Class, 1780–1850 . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Heineman , Helen . Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century . Athens: Ohio UP, 1979 . Joyce , Patrick . Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England . Cambridge: Cambridge UP...

...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...

...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...

... 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 Envy and Victorian Fiction William A. Cohen Structuralist accounts of the classic novel have long noted that the genre’s formal constraints pull narrative in two opposing...

... 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...

...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...

... Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation . New York: Plume, 2000 . Conrad , Peter . Imagining America . New York: Oxford UP, 1980 . Dickens , Charles . American Notes for General Circulation . London: Penguin, 1972 . Ellis , Linda Abess . Frances Trollope’s...

... 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...

... A. “Trollope’s Trollop.” Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction . Durham: Duke UP, 1996 . 159 –190. Collins , Wilkie . The Moonstone . 1868. New York: Bantam, 1982 . “A Conjugal Transaction; or, the Wife’s Property.” Punch 3 Dec. 1870 : 233 . Dolin , Tim...

...Talia Schaffer If Brontë, Eliot, Trollope, and James engage in bad logic, Daniel Wright does not. Bad Logic is a measured, careful work in which careful readings of logicians and ordinary language philosophers share space with well-selected moments from authors' letters and key points...

... 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...

...) to Trollope's The Three Clerks (1857). In their various attempts to negotiate the play between visibility and invisibility that inheres in mental labor, each novel offers a model of how intellectual work can be made to be seen as labor. The Professor (Chapter 1) functions as a kind of prehistory...

... 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...

... a long way into” their topical resonance, she admits, but “in doing so, we miss the attenuated pull” (10), among other things, of her book's central subject—masochism—which she explores in close readings of a half dozen novels by Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence...

... . . . abounding in the romantic element” and a welcome contrast to the “dreary realism” of Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins ( Lothair 251 ). Though James eventually devoted himself to a far more artistically self-conscious mode of fiction, his call for “the romantic element” anticipated the case that Robert...