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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Book Title: Anthony Trollope and his Contemporaries
Book Subtitle: A Study in the Theory and Conventions of Mid-Victorian Fiction
Authors: David Skilton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24693-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-62887-4Published: 06 June 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24693-9Published: 12 August 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 170
Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

The Establishment of Trollope’s Reputation

Critical Concerns of the ’Sixties: Tragedy and Imagination

The Morality of Fiction and the Depiction of Vice

Moral and Social Acceptability

Richard Holt Hutton and Trollope’s Characterization

Trollope’s Theory and Practice of Novel-Writing

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