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Anthony Trollope and his contemporaries: A study in the theory and conventions of mid-Victorian fiction
Anthony Trollope and his contemporaries A study in the theory and conventions of midVictorian fiction Author:David Skilton 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 noveli... more »st'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.« less