Anthony Trollope's "The Warden" (original) (raw)

Contexts and Themes

• Biography
• Religion
  • Is The Warden a religious novel?
  • Sir Abraham Haphazard's Convent Custody Bill
  • (Compare the treatment of religion in Trollope's other novels.)
• Political & Social Contexts
  • John Bold: Characterization, Social and Economic Positioning, and Exposiition
  • Trollope on Conservatism — Preserving Dead Wood
  • Septimus Harding Introduced — the Clergy as Aristocracy
  • The Jupiter
  • The Power of the Press
• Gender Matters
  • Eleanor Harding's Beauty
  • Are the Warden and Bishop masculine or feminine?
• Artistic Relations — The Visual Arts
  • Trollope on The Pre-Raphaelites
  • Art's Power to Reveal vs. Journalism's Power to Force
• Literary Relations
  • Thomas Carlyle and Dr. Pessimist Anticant
  • Charles Dickens and Mr. Popular Sentiment
  • Trollope's Other novels, including The Way We Live Now
  • Violence in Morris's "The Haystack in the Floods" and The Warden
  • Realism, Myth, and the Historical Past in Aurora Leigh and The Warden
  • Bearing Witness to Suffering in Morris and Trollope

Genre and Technique

• Characterization
  • Septimus Harding Introduced
  • On the portrait of Mr. Harding in The Warden and Barchester Towers
  • Eleanor Harding's Beauty
  • John Bold: Characterization, Social and Economic Positioning, and Exposiition
  • Dr. Grantly Reads Rabelais
• Genre & Mode
  • Realism as the "Middle Way"
  • The Warden and Barchester Towers: The Pastoral Defined
  • Notions of Representation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Trollope
  • The Warden as part of the Barchester series
• Setting and Description
  • The Cathedral town of Barchester
  • Setting as Characterization
  • Plumstead Episcopi: Description and Setting in The Warden
  • Setting in The Warden and "The Holy Grail"
• Symbolism, Imagery, and Motif
  • Trollope on Conservatism — Preserving Dead Wood

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