The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope

A state-of-the-field review of critical perspectives on the work of Anthony Trollope.

Carolyn Dever (Edited by), Lisa Niles (Edited by)

9780521713955, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 December 2010

256 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.42 kg

"There is indeed much to be said for letting readers of the volume craft these connections themselves, and in this sense Dever and Niles's collection might best be viewed as an invitation, a guide and companion, indeed, to bring us into Trollope's world, point out its highlights, gesture toward its niches and hidden ways, and let us explore them on our own." --Victorian Studies

Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope provides a state-of-the-field review of critical perspectives on his work, with the volume's sixteen essays addressing Trollope's biography, autobiography, canonical fiction, short stories and travel writing, as well as surveying diverse topics including gender, sexuality, vulgarity, and the law.

Chronology
1. Trollope's literary life and times Mark W. Turner
2. Trollope as autobiographer and biographer Victoria Glendinning
3. Trollope's Barsetshire series Mary Poovey
4. The Palliser novels William A. Cohen
5. Trollope Redux: the later novels Robert Tracy
6. Trollope's short fiction Lisa Niles
7. Trollope and the sensation novel Jenny Bourne Taylor
8. Queer Trollope Kate Flint
9. The Hobbledehoy in Trollope Laurie Langbauer
10. The construction of masculinities David Skilton
11. Vulgarity and money Elsie B. Michie
12. Anthony Trollope and the law Ayelet Ben-Yishai
13. Trollope and travel James Buzard.

Subject Areas: Literary companions, book reviews & guides [DSRC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]