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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frederik Van Dam (Assistant Professor of European Literature, Radboud University)Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.446kg ISBN: 9780748699551ISBN 10: 0748699554 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 19 January 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on Editions and Dates; 1. Introduction: Trollope’s Late Modernity; 2. ‘Getting and Spending’: The Aesthetic Economist; 3. ‘A Bond of Discord’: Colonialism and Allegory; 4. ‘Convivial in a Cadaverous Fashion’: Satires on Sovereignty; 5. ‘Active Citizens of a Free State’: Hellenising the History of Rome; 6. ‘The Tone of Today’: Pedagogical Paraphrases; 7. ‘An Admirable Shrewdness’: Character and the Law; 8. ‘A Poise So Perfect’: Tact as Love; 9. ‘Affectionate Reserve’: Tact as Comedy; Bibliography.ReviewsVan Dam's book is remarkably inclusive, quoting liberally from Trollope's works and a wide range of critics and often containing lengthy footnotes that function as miniature scholarly essays. In this way, Van Dam's own style...reveals the sociable and egalitarian instincts that he attributes to the later Trollope. -- MATTHEW SUSSMAN, The University of Sydney for Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, No. 282 Van Dam's book is remarkably inclusive, quoting liberally from Trollope's works and a wide range of critics and often containing lengthy footnotes that function as miniature scholarly essays. In this way, Van Dam's own style...reveals the sociable and egalitarian instincts that he attributes to the later Trollope. -- MATTHEW SUSSMAN, The University of Sydney for Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, No. 282 Van Dam's study is diverse and eclectic in its compass of the elements of style. -- Deborah Denenholz Morse, Review 19 Author InformationFrederik Van Dam is Assistant Professor of European Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of Anthony Trollope’s Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form (EUP, 2016) and has recently edited a special issue on literature and economics in the European Journal of English Studies (2017). He is currently working on a literary history of diplomacy from the Congress of Vienna up to the present. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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