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Anthony Trollope's Late Style
Frederik Van Dam
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Hardcover. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Eup. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This study focuses on Anthony Trollope’s stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalism
In his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope posits the ideal of a man without style: `I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author’s written language’. Trollope’s own appearance, unlike his written language, did not pass without observation, however. A contemporary poet recollects that he was `hirsute and taurine of aspect’. This study unravels this paradox. It disentangles the many threads in Trollope’s ostensibly transparent writing ... Read more
Key Features:
- Shows how Trollope’s stylistic peculiarities perform his inflection of Victorian liberalism
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- Reads Victorian literature through the lens of German (post-)Romantic thinkers such as Goethe and Walter Benjamin
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- Presents a panorama of Victorian liberalism in its literary, intellectual, and political context
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- Examines the writings from the last decade of Trollope’s life that have received only scant critical attention, such as his novellas and his biographies
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748699551
SKU
V9780748699551
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