The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope

by Walter M. Kendrick and Professor Walter Kendrick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421434008
• ISBN13: 9781421434001
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"