Trollope's Later Novels

Trollope’s Later Novels by Robert Tracy challenges long-standing assumptions about Anthony Trollope’s place in Victorian literature, presenting him not as a genial but second-rate craftsman, but as a novelist of considerable technical sophistication and moral seriousness. Tracy argues that Trollope’s later works, especially those of the 1870s, reveal a writer who had reached full artistic maturity. Far from being clumsy or rambling, these novels demonstrate a unity of form and function in w...