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- The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope
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- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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Originally published in 1980. The first section of The Novel-Machine consists of five short chapters that rewrite Autobiography as an undisguised theory of realistic fiction, exploring its paradoxes while placing it in the context of mid-Victorian criticism. Chapters 6 and 7 survey the manifestations in Trollope's novels of what his theory sets down as the primary difference of realism: its way of telling its readers how to read. Chapter 8 is a close reading of He Knew He Was Right, a neglected novel that, in Kendrick's estimation, deserves to stand in much higher critical esteem than it does. Kendrick shows how deeply woven into the texture of Trollope's writing the rhetoric of realism is. Kendrick's reading is a departure from the usual method of criticizing Trollope—surveying the whole of his work a novel at a time, saying a little about every novel and always too little about each.
Table of Contents
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- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- Note on Texts
- p. xiii
- 2. The Death of Anthony Trollope
- pp. 9-16
- 3. Character and Conveyance
- pp. 17-31
- 4. Writing
- pp. 32-47
- 5. The Other Machine
- pp. 48-61
- 6. The Rhetoric of Reality
- pp. 62-82
- 7. Writing Love
- pp. 83-106
- 8. Writing Madness: He Knew He Was Right
- pp. 107-140
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ISBN
9781421434025
Related ISBN(s)
9780801823015, 9781421434001, 9781421434018
MARC Record
OCLC
1122732284
Pages
162
Launched on MUSE
2019-10-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND