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

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

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

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

by David Skilton

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333628874
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 06/05/1996
Edition description: 2nd ed. 1996
Pages: 170
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on References - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - The Establishment of Trollope's Reputation - Critical Concerns of the Sixties: Tragedy and Imagination - The Morality of Fiction and the Deception of Vice - Moral and Social Acceptability - Richard Holt Hutton and Trollope's Characterisation - Trollope's Theory and Practice of Novel-Writing - Appendix I: Notes on Some Uses of the Word ‘Realism' in Mid-Victorian Criticism of the Novel - Bibliography - Index
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