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Anthony Trollope's Late Style

Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvFrederik Van Dam,Radboud University) Van Dam, Frederik (Assistant Professor of European Literature,Frederik van Dam

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This study focuses on Anthony Trollope’s stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalismIn his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope posits the ideal of a man without style: ‘I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author’s written language’. Trollope’s own appearance, unlike his written language, did not pass without observation, however. A contemporary poet recollects that he was ‘hirsute and taurine of aspect’. This study unravels this paradox. It disentangles the many threads in Trollope’s ostensibly transparent writing and reassembles the political and intellectual fabric that they weave, thus showing how Trollope’s language exceeds and questions the concepts provided by contemporary ideologies.Key Features:Shows how Trollope’s stylistic peculiarities perform his inflection of Victorian liberalismReads Victorian literature through the lens of German (post-)Romantic thinkers such as Goethe and Walter BenjaminPresents a panorama of Victorian liberalism in its literary, intellectual, and political contextExamines the writings from the last decade of Trollope’s life that have received only scant critical attention, such as his novellas and his biographies

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-19
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt446 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor192
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748699551

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Frederik Van Dam is Assistant Professor of European Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of Anthony Trollope’s Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form (EUP, 2016) and has recently edited a special issue on literature and economics in the European Journal of English Studies (2017). He is currently working on a literary history of diplomacy from the Congress of Vienna up to the present.

Acknowledgements; Note on Editions and Dates; 1. Introduction: Trollope’s Late Modernity; 2. ‘Getting and Spending’: The Aesthetic Economist; 3. ‘A Bond of Discord’: Colonialism and Allegory; 4. ‘Convivial in a Cadaverous Fashion’: Satires on Sovereignty; 5. ‘Active Citizens of a Free State’: Hellenising the History of Rome; 6. ‘The Tone of Today’: Pedagogical Paraphrases; 7. ‘An Admirable Shrewdness’: Character and the Law; 8. ‘A Poise So Perfect’: Tact as Love; 9. ‘Affectionate Reserve’: Tact as Comedy; Bibliography.

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