Anthony Trollope's Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form - Couverture rigide

Van Dam, Frederik

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748699554 ISBN 13 : 9780748699551

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Henry James famously dismissed the works which constitute Anthony Trollope's ultimate compositions for their 'fatal dryness of texture' and 'mechanical movement'. Taking its cue from James's observations while challenging his assessment, this study examines the full stylistic range of the novels and biographies which Trollope wrote upon his return from Australia in 1872. It charts the many literary forms which Trollope explored in his final decade, from allegory, satire, and parody, through poignancy, the classics, and paraphrasis, to character, bathos, and fantasy. Blending literary criticism with intellectual history and Frankfurt School theory, Frederik Van Dam shows how Trollope's creation of this new, impersonal aesthetic was driven by a desire to intervene in contemporary debates on topics such suburban sociability and marginalist economics, colonialism and national sovereignty, educational and jurisprudential reforms. Anthony Trollope's Late Style thus argues that if we want to understand the development of Trollope's political views, we must pay close attention to the literary language in which these views were performed. The image of Trollope emerging from this analysis is that of a stylistic visionary and a political radical.

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À propos de l?auteur

Frederik Van Dam is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has published in the fields of Victorian literature and intellectual history, and is one of the principal organizers of the 2015 Trollope Bicentennial Conference. His work has been supported by fellowships and travel grants funded by the Research Council Flanders (FWO) and the Special Research Fund KU Leuven (BOF). He has also received awards from the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education and the British Association for Victorian Studies. He has published in the Journal of Victorian Culture (2014) and Victoriographies (2011). This is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748699554
• ISBN 13: 9780748699551
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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