Trollope and Comic Pleasure

by Christopher Herbert

Challenging the sentimentalized and moralized view of comedy that prevails in modern criticism, Christopher Herbert outlines a theory of comedy as a mode whose dominant motive and function is the glorification of pleasure. Using this model, he presents a detailed study of Anthony Trollope that sharply contradicts the persistent image of this novelist as a conventional writer and complacent spokesman for middle-class pieties.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226327418
• ISBN13: 9780226327419
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"