Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites


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Literary Criticism

Edwards, Amelia. "From a past contemporary: three Victorian novelists-Charles Dickens, W.M. Thackeray, Anthony Trollope." In Contemporary Review, August, 1994

Frank, Cathrine O. Trial Separations: Divorce, Disestablishment, and Home Rule in Phineas Redux. College Literature, Summer 2008.

Jones, Wendy. "Feminism, fiction and contract theory: Trollope's He Knew He Was Right." In Criticism, Summer, 1994

Kohn, Denise. "'The Journey to Panama': one of Trollope's best 'tarts' - or, why you should read 'The Journey to Panama' to develop your taste for Trollope." On a short story by Anthony Trollope. In Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1993

Maunder, Andres. A substantial introduction to Anthony Trollope from the Literary Encyclopedia, 7/18/2001

Meade, Rebecca. Brief article about an event for lawyers honoring Anthony Trollope and Victorian fiction, "Lawyers Who Love Trollope," in The New Yorker, April 16, 2001

Moody, Ellen. A collection of material on Anthony Trollope by Professor Moody, including an article on letter-writing characters in his novels, extensive bibliographies, reproductions of illustrations to his novels, and excerpts from the Trollope discussion list

Mullen, Richard. "Trollope on compact disc" On the contemporary popularity of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, and the issuing of his complete works on compact disc by the Trollope Society. In Contemporary Review, Nov, 1996

Mullen, Richard. Trollope And The Pious Slippers Of Cheltenham. In Contemporary Review, Feb, 2001

Reiter, Paula Jean Husbands, wives, and lawyers: Gender roles and professional representation in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett case. In College Literature, Winter 1998

Tintner, Adeline R. "James's 'The Patagonia': a critique of Trollope's 'The Journey to Panama.'" On short stories by Henry James and Anthony Trollope. In Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1995

Ziegenhagen, Timothy. Trollope's professional gentleman: medical training and medical practice in Doctor Thorne and The Warden. Studies in the Novel, Summer, 2006.


Introduction

The Victorian Web has essays on Anthony Trollope's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background

Older criticism of Anthony Trollope's Barchester series, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

A biography of Anthony Trollope from British Authors of the Nineteenth Century, pp. 629-631

An introducton to Anthony Trollope from The Guardian (UK)

Travel Etc: Grand tours: Follow in the footsteps of Anthony Trollope The Independent (London), Dec 16, 2001 by Ed Sexton

On the British Broadcasting Company adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now, by Tim Adams in The Guardian, Nov. 11, 2001

A PBS web site on Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now contains an interview with actor David Suchet about playing Melmotte, a biography of Trollope, some topics for discussion, and more

British Broadcasting Company web site for the April 2004 broadcast of He Knew He Was Right contains a brief interview with the author of the screenplay and fluff

Some scanned pages from a 1914 text on the discovery of the diamond fields in South Africa in the late nineteenth century

Information on Harvard University's Trollope Prize for the best article on Anthony Trollope by an undergraduate student

A feature page on Victorian times, from the British Broadcasting Company, contains much interesting social history written especially for the site and is a good introduction to the period

An online guide to the uses of classics in the Barsetshire novels of Anthony Trollope, created by Professor Rebecca Resinski and students at Hendrix College, 2005-6

A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies


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