Anthony Trollope

Auteur
Dinah Birch is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She has published widely on Victorian literature, and on the work of John Ruskin. Her books include Ruskin's Myths (1988) and Our Victorian Education (2008). She is the General Editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature (2009), and has published editions of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (2011), Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (2012) and The Small House at Allington (2014). She writes regularly for the TLS and the LRB, contributes to Sky Arts documentaries, and has served as a judge on the Booker Prize panel.

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This Very Short Introduction will place Trollope's work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent scholarship to illuminate his central interests and literary strategies. Readers will find a focussed critical guide to his writing, of a kind that will direct and inform their reading.

Résumé
This Very Short Introduction will place Trollope's work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent scholarship to illuminate his central interests and literary strategies. Readers will find a focussed critical guide to his writing, of a kind that will direct and inform their reading.

Contenu

• Acknowledgements

• 1: Family and work

• 2: Story and style

• 3: Ireland

• 4: Chronicling Barsetshire

• 5: Politics and power in the Palliser novels

• 6: Money, inheritance, and the law

• 7: Women and men

• 8: Travel

• 9: Afterlife

• Timeline

• References and further reading