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New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of
Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on
fatherhood may have been a nineteenth-century norm. Beginning with
an evaluation of the evidence for cultural determinations of
masculinity during Trollope's times, the author sets the stage with
a discussion of the religious, philosophical, and educational
influences that informed the evolution of Trollope's personal views
of masculinity as he grew from boyhood into later manhood. Her
treatment of his novels, drawing on a wide selection from across
the oevre, shows that sensitive examination of Trollope's texts
discovers him advancing a startlingly modern model of manhood under
a veneer of conformity. Trollope's independent views on
child-rearing, education, courtship, marriage, parenthood, and gay
men are also discussed within the context of Victorian culture in
this witty, original, and immensely knowledgeable study of
Victorian masculinity.
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The
Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original
readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as
source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary
and cultural studies. As the editors observe in their provocative
introduction, Trollope more than any of his contemporaries is
studied by scholars from disciplines outside literary studies. The
contributors here draw together work from economics, colonialism
and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal
studies, and politics that convincingly argues for the eminence of
Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations
of Victorian culture that currently predominate. The essays
variously examine imperial and postcolonial themes in the context
of economic, cultural, aesthetic, and demographic influences; show
how gender-sensitive readings expose Trollope's critique of
capitalism's influence; address Trollope and sexuality in the
context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and
classical feminism; and offer new approaches to narrative theory
through examination of Victorian understandings of male and female
psychology. Regenia Gagnier's concluding chapter revisits the
collection's critical strands and reflects on the implications for
future studies of Trollope.
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The
Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original
readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as
source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary
and cultural studies. As the editors observe in their provocative
introduction, Trollope more than any of his contemporaries is
studied by scholars from disciplines outside literary studies. The
contributors here draw together work from economics, colonialism
and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal
studies, and politics that convincingly argues for the eminence of
Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations
of Victorian culture that currently predominate. The essays
variously examine imperial and postcolonial themes in the context
of economic, cultural, aesthetic, and demographic influences; show
how gender-sensitive readings expose Trollope's critique of
capitalism's influence; address Trollope and sexuality in the
context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and
classical feminism; and offer new approaches to narrative theory
through examination of Victorian understandings of male and female
psychology. Regenia Gagnier's concluding chapter revisits the
collection's critical strands and reflects on the implications for
future studies of Trollope.
New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of
Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on
fatherhood may have been a nineteenth-century norm. Beginning with
an evaluation of the evidence for cultural determinations of
masculinity during Trollope's times, the author sets the stage with
a discussion of the religious, philosophical, and educational
influences that informed the evolution of Trollope's personal views
of masculinity as he grew from boyhood into later manhood. Her
treatment of his novels, drawing on a wide selection from across
the oevre, shows that sensitive examination of Trollope's texts
discovers him advancing a startlingly modern model of manhood under
a veneer of conformity. Trollope's independent views on
child-rearing, education, courtship, marriage, parenthood, and gay
men are also discussed within the context of Victorian culture in
this witty, original, and immensely knowledgeable study of
Victorian masculinity.
Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The
Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a
comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new
directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed
especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the
collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to
Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution,
race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging,
sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.
Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The
Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a
comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new
directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed
especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the
collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to
Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution,
race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging,
sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.
Trollope is usually seen as a faithful mirror of Victorian England,
both in providing details of contemporary life and in endorsing the
moral attitudes and certainties of the period. His powers of
empathy make his characters convincing and knowable. Yet the
Victorians restricted women to the house and severely limited their
rights and opportunities. This text examines the conundrum of how a
great novelist could both accept the conventional values of the
time and yet be able to see and sympathise with the impossible
situations that Victorian women often found themselves. The author
shows the individuality of Trollope's women: even conventional
Angel in the House heroines, like the eponymous Rachel Ray and Mary
Lowther in "The Vicar of Bullhampton", can surprise us at times.
More tellingly, he cannot help giving some of his less angelic
characters, such as the vivacious Lizzie Eustace in "The Eustace
Diamonds" and the dauntless Mrs Hurtle in "The Way We Live Now".
His range extends beyond simple romance to the realistic handling
of marriages, both happy and unhappy, and to the treatment of
bigamy and scandal. He shows men and women getting on together as
well as fighting bitterly. Nor are Trollope's novels as devoid of
sex as has often been thought. Not only are hidden jokes made about
the subject, men in the novels clearly think about women's bodies -
something that women reciprocate. While in his plots and in his
authorial asides, Trollope usually supports conventional Victorian
attitudes, in his handling of women he shows himself capable of a
real understanding of their restrictions and problems: the
imperative to catch a husband; women's powerlessness (as
experienced by Emily Trevelyan in "He Knew He Was Right" where a
marriage failed; and the double standards applied to them
throughout their lives.
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