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Anthony Trollope and his Contemporaries

A Study in the Theory and Conventions of Mid-Victorian Fiction

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  • © 1996

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  1. David Skilton
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. The Establishment of Trollope’s Reputation

    • David Skilton
    Pages 1-36

  3. Critical Concerns of the ’Sixties: Tragedy and Imagination

    • David Skilton
    Pages 37-57

  4. The Morality of Fiction and the Depiction of Vice

    • David Skilton
    Pages 58-78

  5. Moral and Social Acceptability

    • David Skilton
    Pages 79-99

  6. Richard Holt Hutton and Trollope’s Characterization

    • David Skilton
    Pages 100-125

  7. Trollope’s Theory and Practice of Novel-Writing

    • David Skilton
    Pages 126-148

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 149-170
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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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