The Novel-Machine The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope / Walter M. Kendrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendrick, Walter M., author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Note on Texts

1. Introduction: A World under Glass

2. The Death of Anthony Trollope

3. Character and Conveyance

4. Writing

5. The Other Machine

6. The Rhetoric of Reality

7. Writing Love

8. Writing Madness: He Knew He Was Right

Index.

Notes:

Originally published in 1980

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-2301-3

1-4214-3400-8

OCLC:

1122732284