The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels: New Readings for the Twenty-First Century (The Nineteenth Century Series)

<p>Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. As the editors observe in their provocative introduction, Trollope more than any of his contemporaries is studied by scholars from disciplines outside literary studies. The contributors here draw together work from economics, colonialism and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal studies, and politics that convincingly argues for the eminence of Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations of Victorian culture that currently predominate. The essays variously examine imperial and postcolonial themes in the context of economic, cultural, aesthetic, and demographic influences; show how gender-sensitive readings expose Trollope's critique of capitalism's influence; address Trollope and sexuality in the context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and classical feminism; and offer new approaches to narrative theory through examination of Victorian understandings of male and female psychology. Regenia Gagnier's concluding chapter revisits the collection's critical strands and reflects on the implications for future studies of Trollope.</p>

The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Morse, Deborah Denenholz

Reference

Routledge

The "Woman Question" - the controversy over women's proper "nature and mission" - was an issue that permeated both Victorian mores and the literature of that period. Ideals of Victorian womanhood were dependent upon certain assumptions about the "gentlemanly ethic" - the superiority of men in the public sphere as women were forced to settle for limited self-realization, sacrificing public aspirations in favor of private fulfillment in a marriage of equals.   Previous studies of Anthony Trollope's writings suggest that Trollope was comfortable with the conventions of the gender roles of his times, that he cherished a belief about the centrality of gentlemen and the landed estate to the stability of the social structure in England. Author Deborah Denenholz Morse challenges this view with a careful consideration of Trollope's second fiction-sequence, his Palliser novels, focusing especially on Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister, and The Duke's Children.

Women in Trollope's Palliser Novels (Nineteenth-Century Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Univ of Rochester Pr

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A Companion to the Brontës (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

Hoeveler, Diane Long

British & Irish

Wiley/Blackwell

<p>Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse’s radical rethinking of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of Trollope’s critical reception, Morse traces the ways in which Trollope’s responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1860s and 1870s are reflected in his novels. She argues that as Trollope’s ideas about gender and race evolved over those two crucial decades, his politics became more liberal. The first section of the book analyzes these changes in terms of genre. As Morse shows, the novelist subverts and modernizes the quintessential English genre of the pastoral in the wake of Darwin in the early 1860s novel The Small House at Allington. Following the Second Reform Act, he reimagines the marriage plot along new class lines in the early 1870s in Lady Anna. The second section focuses upon gender. In the wake of the Second Reform Bill and the agitations for women's rights in the 1860s and 1870s, Trollope reveals the tragedy of primogeniture and male privilege in Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite and the viciousness of the marriage market in Ayala's Angel. The final section of Reforming Trollope centers upon race. Trollope's response to the Jamaica Rebellion and the ensuing Governor Eyre Controversy in England is revealed in the tragic marriage of a quintessential English gentleman to a dark beauty from the Empire's dominions. The American Civil War and its aftermath led to Trollope's insistence that English identity include the history of English complicity in the black Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, a history Trollope encodes in the creole discourses of the late novel Dr. Wortle's School. Reforming Trollope is a transformative examination of an author too long identified as the epitome of the complacent English gentleman.</p>

Reforming Trollope

History & Criticism

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