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

by Walter M. Kendrick and Professor Walter Kendrick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801823013
• ISBN13: 9780801823015
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher