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

Van Dam, Frederik

 
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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 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 as suburban sociability and marginalist economics, colonialism and national sovereignty, educational and jurisprudential reforms.

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Frederik Van Dam is Assistant Professor of Literature at Radboud University.

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9780748699551: Anthony Trollope's Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form

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ISBN 10 :  0748699554 ISBN 13 :  9780748699551
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2016
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