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Anthony Trollope and his Contemporaries: A Study in the Theory and Conventions of Mid-Victorian Fiction

By David Skilton (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1996
ISBN
978-0-333-62887-4, 978-1-349-24693-9, 978-0-312-15879-8
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-24693-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22205316 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XXII, 170\192
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Literature

Description

First published in 1972, the second edition of this highly respected classic of Trollope criticism will be welcomed by Trollope scholars everywhere. David Skilton examines the literary background against which Trollope wrote, and drawing on the vast evidence of mid-Victorian periodical criticism, he shows how this criticism controlled the novelist's creativity. He then goes on to examine Trollope's particular type of realism in the context of the theories of literary imagination current in the 1860s. 'A book I admire. It has been of great value to me.' - J. Hillis Miller 'The first and still the best study of Trollope's relationships, connections and interactions with the literary world of his own time. Skilton's is the necessary introduction to any serious investigation of Trollope's fiction.' - John Sutherland

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