Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope

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. David Skilton, who is Emeritus Professor in English at Cardiff University, was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Copenhagen. He has written extensively on Victorian fiction and the Victorian literary system, and on the art and literature of London. As well as editing numerous nineteenth-century novels, he was General Editor of the Trollope Society edition of the collected novels of Anthony Trollope. Ortwin de Graef is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and director of the Paul Druwé Fund for Trollope Studies. He is the author of two books on Paul de Man and has published widely on Romantic and post-Romantic writing. His principal research interests are the Very-Long-Nineteenth-Century ideologies of sympathy, science, and the State reflected and refracted through the transmission technologies of the literary.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Frederik Van Dam, David Skilton and Ortwin de GraefI. Style1. Almost Trollope, Claire Jarvis2. He Had Taught Himself to Think: Anthony Trollope on Self-Control in Knowledge and Belief, Patrick Fessenbecker3. The Physiology of the Everyday: Trollope’s Defl ected Intimacies of Clothing, Touch and Free Indirect Discourse, Sophie Gilmartin4. ‘Rubbish and Paste’: Reading and Recurrence in An Old Man’s Love, Helen Blythe5. Reading An Autobiography as Advice Literature, David Skilton6. Trollope, Seriality, Series, Lauren M. E. GoodladII. Circulation7. A Christmas Cavil: Trollope Re-Writes Dickens in the Outback, Steven Amarnick8. Creation as Criticism: Anthony Trollope, Anthony Powell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Bowen9. The Way We Counterlive Now: Trollope’s Fictional Heritage, Luca Caddia10. Trollope in China: Trollope’s Transculturation from the Late Qing Dynasty to the Present, Xiaolan Zuo11. Trollope and Russia, Boris M. Proskurnin12. Reading Trollope in New Zealand, Lydia WeversIII. Media Networks13. Realism v. Realpolitik: Trollope and the Parliamentary Career Manqué, Helen Small14. In-Between Times: Trollope’s Ordinal Numbers, Clare Pettitt15. Mimesis, Media Archaeology and the Postage Stamp in John Caldigate, Richard Menke16. Trollope’s Living Media: Fox Hunts and Marriage Plots, Tamara Ketabgian17. Lane-ism: Anthony Trollope’s Irish Roads in Time and Space, Claire Connolly18. Imperial Logistics: Trollope and the Question of Central America, Robert D. AguirreIV. Economics19. High Interest and Impaired Security: Trollope’s Women Investors, Nancy Henry20. The Way We Live Now and the Meaning of Montagu Square, Francis O’Gorman21. ‘Ceade mille faltha’: Questions of Hospitality in the Irish Trollope, John McCourt22. Power in Numbers: Fetishes and Facts between Trollope and Law, Anat Rosenberg23. Shoddy Trollope, Kate FlintIndex

A wide-ranging collection of some of the best critics in English on Britain’s preeminent political novelist. I particularly appreciate the international dimension, Trollope in and on Asia, Australasia, Latin America and Russia.