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The un-Trollopian Trollope: some notes on the Barsetshire novels
No full textThe six Barsetshire novels are not only Anthony Trollope\u27s most popular ones, but also those which are usually considered to represent the author at his mildest and most conventional, as regards the Victorian social and ethical codes. Without entirely disregarding this view, this paper argues that Trollope disguises many of his own opinions behind an apparently unproblematic presentation of characters, situations and attitudes. The essay is therefore an attempt to delineate some of these techniques of "concealment", with the aim of exposing some of the double readings discoverable in Trollope\u27s novels
An incomplete project: Graphic adaptations of Moby-Dick and the ethics of response
No full textThe chapter, "An incomplete project: Graphic adaptations of Moby-Dick and the ethics of response" was written by Peter Wilkins (Douglas College Faculty). A cross-disciplinary collection of essays in the fields of nineteenth-century history, adaptation, word/image and Victorianism. Featuring new writing by some of the most influential, respected and radical scholars in these fields, Transforming Anthony Trollope constitutes both a close companion to Simon Grennan’s 2015 graphic novel Dispossession – an adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s 1879 novel John Caldigate – and a forward-looking, stand-alone addition to current debates on the cultural uses of history and the theorisation of remediation, illustration and narrative drawing. -- Back cover.
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Anthony Trollope and the Voicing of Victorian Fiction
No full textMonica C. Lewis, "Anthony Trollope and the Voicing of Victorian Fiction" (pp. 141–165)
Although critics have read the intrusive nature of Anthony Trollope's narrators as everything from suicidal to cordial, little to no attention has been paid to the larger context in which these intrusions would have been voiced or to Trollope's carefully constructed relationship to the interpretive community upon which his literary livelihood depended. Well aware that his novels would be read aloud to his Victorian audience, Trollope adopted a particularly "modern" approach to the questions of audience and reception. At the moment of articulation, this essay argues, the voice of Trollope's author-narrator welcomes his listeners into a critical dialogue that calls into question not only the aesthetics of fiction but also moral and ethical codes, the construction of "character," and an increasingly modern world. Trollope's novel of life in the employ of the civil service, The Three Clerks (1858), is a heretofore-neglected case in point. The novel's protagonist, Charley Tudor, is both a clerk and an aspiring novelist; the reading aloud of his manuscript to an assembled company of admirers serves as a showcase for the ways in which Trollope expected his audience to engage with his own narratives. Drawing upon theories of reading and reception, recent scholarship on nineteenth-century reading practices and Trollope's negotiation of modernity, and evidence from Trollope's own experiences as a reader and writer, this essay exposes Anthony Trollope as a novelist whose ambivalent engagement with modernity found its expression in the dialogical space he created among author-narrator, reader, and listener.</jats:p
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The Feminist Trollope: Hero(in)es in The Warden and Barchester Towers
No full textAlthough Anthony Trollope has traditionally been considered an anti-feminist author, studies within the past decade have shown that Trollope's later novels show support for female power and sympathy for Victorian women who were dissatisfied with their narrow roles in society. A feminist reading of two of his earliest novels, The Warden and Barchester Towers, shows that Trollope's feminism is not limited to his later works. In The Warden, Trollope acclaims female power and "woman's logic" through female characters and the womanly warden, Septimus Harding. In Barchester Towers, Trollope continues to support feminism through his positive portrayals of strong, independent women and the androgynous Harding. In Barchester Towers, the battle of the sexes ends in a balance of power
Complex networks: Author-editor relations and cultural change in the golden age of Victorian periodicals--Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens; Anthony Trollope and William Makepeace Thackeray; George Eliot and John Blackwood
No full textThis thesis examines three pairs of author-editor relationships, whose authors published one of their major works through a form of serialization in the Victorian periodical press. The three pairs, their works, and their respective periodicals are Elizabeth Gaskell, author of North and South, and Charles Dickens, editor of Household Words; Anthony Trollope, author of Framley Parsonage, and William Makepeace Thackeray, editor of The Cornhill Magazine; and, George Eliot, author of Middlemarch, and John Blackwood, editor of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. For each of these relationships, I analyze one-to-one correspondence and other primary sources, concluding that in tandem these pairs of authors and editors contribute to the ever-changing cultural growth occurring in the nineteenth century. Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens notoriously had a tempestuous relationship, but, in spite of their difficulties in serializing North and South, their shared legacy should be as the twin social commentators of their time. By contrast, Anthony Trollope and W. M. Thackeray maintained a businesslike relationship, with Trollope offering Framley Parsonage as the quintessential English novel to the fledgling Cornhill Magazine. In parallel fashion, Thackeray and Trollope worked to promote the new gentlemanly ideal to their middle-class public. Finally, George Eliot maintained a long and robust correspondence with her editor, John Blackwood, relying on him for encouragement to keep writing. With his consistent and abundant affirmation of her true-to-life writing style that is most fully represented in Middlemarch, Eliot and Blackwood contributed to the establishment of literary realism that was developing towards the end of the nineteenth century. Each of these authors, editors, novels, and periodicals has a story to tell, and, in combination, they helped to create a publishing culture that reflected the dynamic social and literary transformations arising in nineteenth-century Britain
‘ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF — FIRST, NEGATIVELY’: CHARLES DICKENS, ANTHONY TROLLOPE, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY AND FIRST-PERSON JOURNALISM IN THE 1860S FAMILY MAGAZINE
No full textThis thesis examines the editorial contributions of W.M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope to the Cornhill Magazine, All the Year Round and Saint Pauls Magazine, analyzing their cultivation of a familiar or personal style of journalism in the context of the 1860s family magazine and its rhetoric of intimacy. Focusing on their first-person journalistic series, it argues that these writers/editors used these contributions as a means of establishing a seemingly intimate and personal relationship with their readers, and considers the various techniques that they used to develop that relationship, including their use of first-person narration, autobiography, the anecdote, dream sequences and memory. It contends that those same contributions questioned and critiqued the depiction of reader-writer relations which they simultaneously propagated, highlighting the distinction between this portrayal and the realities of the industrialized and commercialized world of periodical journalism. It places this within the context of the discourse of family that was integral to the identity of these magazines, demonstrating how these series both held up and complicated the idealized image of Victorian domesticity that was promoted by the mainstream periodical culture of the day, maintaining that this was a standard feature of family magazine journalism and theorizing that this was in fact a large part of its popular appeal to the family market. The introductory chapter examines the discourse of family that dominated the mid-range magazines of the 1860s and how this ties in with the series’ rhetoric of intimacy. Chapter One looks at Thackeray’s ‘Roundabout Papers’, examining the manner in which Thackeray establishes a sense of familiarity between his editorial persona and the reader, only to consistently undermine his own efforts, viewing this within the context of Thackeray’s realist aesthetic. Chapter Two turns to Dickens’s ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’, and traces the relationship between Dickens’s use of the personal, his concept of the ‘Uncommercial’ in the series and his preoccupation with the forces of commercialism and Utilitarianism, which it reads as ultimately concerned with his own sense of complicity in the commercialization of literature. Chapter Three studies ‘An Editor’s Tales’ within the context of its publication during the last months of Trollope’s editorship of Saint Pauls and reads the ambivalent relationship of the series to the personal and its unconventional treatment of the family in relation to this, viewing the series as a part of Trollope’s reaction to the failure of the experiment he undertook with Saint Pauls
The life and art of Anthony Trollope with special emphasis on his short stories
No full textDas Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, eine Darstellung vom Leben und Wirken des viktorianischen Autors Anthony Trollope zu geben und die Zusammenhänge zwischen seiner sehr eindrucksvollen Biographie und seinem Werk, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner bisher von Kritikern wenig beachteten Kurzgeschichten, aufzuzeigen.
Der erste Teil der Arbeit zeigt, inwieweit sich Trollopes biographische Erfahrungen in seinen Werken widerspiegeln, insbesondere in seinen Kurzgeschichten. Trollope nutze das Medium der Kurzgeschichten, um mit Themen und Charakteren zu experimentieren, welche bei der konservativeren Leserschaft seiner Romane Anstoß erregt hätten.
Die Gewichtung im zweiten Teil liegt stärker auf Trollopes künstlerischen Besonderheiten wie Sprache, Stil, Erzähltechnik und Themenwahl. Trollope verstand seine Werke als Anleitungen für das Leben und als - für ihn typische - Ratschläge für seine Leser. Anders als in den Romanen beziehen diese sich nicht vorrangig auf zwischenmenschliche und gesellschaftliche Themen, sondern richten sich auch an Reisende, britische Kolonialisten, junge Schriftsteller und junge unverheiratete Frauen. Zwar spielen die für Trollope typischen Themen wie Liebe, Ehe und die Frage nach der Qualifikation einer Person als ‘Gentleman’ oder ‘Lady’ ebenfalls eine große Rolle, jedoch ist der Umgang mit diesen Themen freier und weniger den viktorianischen Konventionen unterworfen. Auch die Charaktere unterscheiden sich von den für Trollope typischen klerikalen oder adeligen englischen Mittel- und Oberschichtcharakteren der Romane. Insgesamt zeigen die Kurzgeschichten mehr vom Leben und von der Person der Autors und sind deshalb nicht nur ein wichtiger, sondern auch ein lesenswerter Teil seines literarischen Werkes.The aim of this paper is to show the link between the life and works of the Victorian author Anthony Trollope with a special emphasis on his shorter fiction. Trollope’s short stories have until recently been treated by his critics as the by-product of a busy novel writer. Trollope, friend and contemporary of many such eminent writers as Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot, and himself one of the best-selling authors of Victorian England has remained relatively unknown to German speaking readers.
The first part of this paper concentrates on Trollope’s biography and tries to show how strongly Trollope's busy life was reflected in his literature, especially in his short stories. Many of Trollope’s personal experiences, opinions and passions found their way into them.
The second part focuses on the particularities of Trollope’s art, such as language, style character presentation and the use of his narrator. Although Trollope’s typical themes such as courtship, marriage, and the question whether someone qualifies as a gentleman or a lady are dealt with, Trollope took the opportunity to explore less conventional topics and characters, away from his more conservative novel-readership. In the short stories he tackled the question of employment for young women, described the problems of British travellers and colonials, and lamented the sufferings of young writers. On the whole the short stories give a much greater insight into the life and the person of the author are therefore not only an essential but also an enjoyable part of his fiction
The Trollope family : from a sketch taken from life, made in Cincinnati in 1829.
No full textA print satirizing Mrs. Trollope, the author of "Domestic manners of the Americans," a book which comments on American customs. Mrs. Trollope sits on the floor, holding an open book on her lap, with two girls beside her. The artist Auguste Hervieu paints a scene on a large canvas, possibly his lost painting of Lafayette landing in Cincinnati, while a man poses on a sawhorse holding a sword. Two men look on from the right, and a bulldog sits in the left foreground. This print is possibly the only depiction of Auguste Hervieu.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1832 by Childs & Inman in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Cronotopos, valores y acto ético en The Way We Live Now de Anthony Trollope
No full textBased on Bakhtin�s concept of chronotope and his conception of the author-character-reader relationship (Bajtín, 1986; Ponzio, 1998), this exercise approaches two characters from The Way We Live Now (1875, by Anthony Trollope). Using discourse analysis as a method, the objective of this article is two-fold. On the one hand, we get to see how these two characters (Roger and Felix Carbury) are presented to the reader and the attitude the author shows toward each one of them. On the other hand, discourse analysis proves equally useful to reach a chronotopic configuration in the novel, which serves as a reference point for readers back in the day between the fictional reality presented in the novel and their own factual reality. The exercise suggests: (i) that Trollope uses the Carburys to contrast two world views that struggle in a country which is more and more industrialised and modern; (ii) that the time-place combination in the novel allowed 19th century readers identify with the fictional world the novel presented. Hence, (i) and (ii) would have allowed the author of The Way We Live Now to criticise his own society through the novel.Con base en la noción bajtiniana de cronotopos (Bajtin, 1986) y su atención a las relaciones autor-protagonista-destinatario (Ponzio, 1998) este ejercicio de análisis aborda dos personajes de la novela The Way We Live Now (1875) del autor inglés Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). Con el análisis del discurso como herramienta metodológica, se aborda, por una parte, la presentación de estos dos personajes, Roger y Felix Carbury, al igual que la actitud del autor en torno a cada uno de ellos. Por otra parte, esta metodología es igualmente útil para acercarnos a una configuración cronotópica de la novela, la cual sirve como punto de referencia para los lectores de la época entre la novela y su propia realidad. El ejercicio sugiere: (i) que Trollope utiliza a los Carbury para contraponer dos visiones de mundo que antagonizan en una Gran Bretaña cada vez más adentrada al mundo moderno; (ii) la combinación espacio-tiempo en la novela, al ofrecer la sensación de inmediatez y familiaridad, permitió a los lectores de la época identificarse con el mundo ficcionalizado en ésta. En este sentido, (i) y (ii) habrían permitido un aspecto de crítica social a través de la novela de parte del autor
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