Anthony Trollope's Literary Relations: Source, Influence, Confluence, Critique (original) (raw)

Ancient Authors

• Trollope and the Consolations of the Classics in An Old Man's Love
• Trollope's Apollo: A Guide to Classics in the Barsetshire Novels of Anthony Trollope (outside VW; will open in new window)

Nineteenth-century Novelists

• Trollope's Marginalia in Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays (includes praise of Jane Austen)
• The Gerard Maule/Adelaide Palliser subplot functions much like the Jane/Bingley subplot in Pride and Prejudice
• Trollope Parodies Dickens: Mr. Popular Sentiment
• Kincaid on The Three Clerks as a “false start” for Trollope, one that borrows significantly from Dickens
• Dickens’s portrait of Americans in Martin Chuzzlewit to Trollope’s Slope
• Comparing Trollope's Realism to that of Dickens and Thackeray
• Phineas Finn and Dickens’s Micawber
• Lizzie Eustace and Becky Sharp
• Kincaid on Miss Mackenzie as “a fable of rejuvenation and rebirth” in the vein of Dickens and Jane Austen
• Trollope's Mr. Hall — An Answer to Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett?
• Gambling in Trollope and Gaskell
• Playthings to Men: Women, Power, and Money in Gaskell and Trollope
• What is Romantic Love? Margaret Hale and Ruby Ruggles Reply
• Subjective response to letters in nineteenth-century fictions: Austen, Collins, Gaskell, and Meredith
• Trollope's opinion of Thackeray
• Mrs. Oliphant and other authors of Clerical Novels
• Lizzie Eustace’s infatuation with Romanticism (Shelley, Byron, and Scott)

Tennyson, the Brownings, and other Victorian Poets

• A comparison of Tennyson’s English idylls to the idyll Trollope creates in the Barchester series
• Realism in "Fra Lippo Lippi" and The Way We Live Now
• Theories of Realism in Browning and Trollope
• Realism, Myth, and the Historical Past in Aurora Leigh and The Warden
• Art's Power to Reveal vs. Journalism's Power to Force
• Setting in The Warden and "The Holy Grail"
• Bearing Witness to Suffering in Morris and Trollope

Punch

• Trollope's Social Satire
• Anti-Semitism in Trollope and Punch
• Social Satire in Punch and Trollope: Marriage
• Social Position

Miscellaneous

• Swindlers as Objects of Admiration in Carlyle and Trollope
• Trollope Parodies Carlyle: Dr. Pessimist Anticant
• Ruth ap-Roberts and Clyde de L. Ryals on Carlyle & Trollope
• The Critical Reception of Trollope's Clergymen of the Church of England
• Trollope and Richardson — a bibliographical note
• Alice in Can You Forgive Her?and Henry James's Isobel Archer

Reputation

• Trollope and His Middle-Class Readership
• The Charms of Trollope and His Twentieth-Century Reputation
• Trollope on Book Reviewing
• Some Critical Opinions of Is He Popenjoy? and Ayala's Angel
• Women's Reactions to Ayala's Angel
• Henry James’s criticism of Trollope, and his use of Trollope as a symbol and a foil
• Henry James reviews Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her?
• Henry James final estimate of Trollope (complete essay)

Last modified 11 June 2022