The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope - Paperback

by Frederik Van Dam (Editor), David Skilton (Editor), Ortwin de Graef (Editor)

Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first century
Since the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has become a central figure in the critical understanding of Victorian literature. By bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays involves the reader in new approaches to Trollope's work. The contributors to this volume highlight dimensions that have hitherto received only scant attention and in doing so they aim to draw on the aesthetic capabilities of Trollope's twenty-first-century readers. Instead of reading Trollope's novels as manifestations of social theory, they aim to foster an engagement with a far more broadly theorised literary culture.

Key Features:
The most innovative collection of original essays on Anthony Trollope to dateEnables the reader to see the direction of Trollope studies and Victorian studies in the twenty-first centurySituates Trollope's work in newly emerging critical contexts, such as media networks and economicsMakes use of pioneering developments in stylistics, ethics, epistemology, and reception history

Author Biography

Frederik Van Dam is Assistant Professor of European Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of Anthony Trollope's Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form (EUP, 2016) and has recently edited a special issue on literature and economics in the European Journal of English Studies (2017). He is currently working on a literary history of diplomacy from the Congress of Vienna up to the present.

David Skilton, who is Emeritus Professor in English at Cardiff University, was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Copenhagen. He has written extensively on Victorian fiction and the Victorian literary system, and on the art and literature of London. As well as editing numerous nineteenth-century novels, he was General Editor of the Trollope Society edition of the collected novels of Anthony Trollope.

Ortwin de Graef is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and director of the Paul Druwé Fund for Trollope Studies. He is the author of two books on Paul de Man and has published widely on Romantic and post-Romantic writing. His principal research interests are the Very-Long-Nineteenth-Century ideologies of sympathy, science, and the State reflected and refracted through the transmission technologies of the literary.