Romanticism and Anthony Trollope: A Study in the Continuities of Nineteenth-Century Literary Thought

Most people who study Romanticism suppose the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has little or nothing to do with Romantic literary thought, except perhaps opposition to it. Most people who study Trollope agree. Romanticism and Anthony Trollope argues that these suppositions are mistaken, reflecting erroneous ideas about Romanticism or about Trollope—or perhaps about both.L. J. Swingle invites reexamination of popular assumptions about the nature of nineteenth-century literary art, general...