Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Note on Editions and Dates x
6. 1. Introduction: Trollope’s Late Modernity 1
7. 2. ‘Getting and Spending’: The Aesthetic Economist 17
8. 3. ‘A Bond of Discord’: Colonialism and Allegory 26
9. 4. ‘Convivial in a Cadaverous Fashion’: Satires on Sovereignty 38
10. 5. ‘Active Citizens of a Free State’: Hellenising the History of Rome 63
11. 6. ‘The Tone of Today’: Pedagogical Paraphrases 81
12. 7. ‘An Admirable Shrewdness’: Character and the Law 100
13. 8. ‘A Poise So Perfect’: Tact as Love 112
14. 9. ‘Affectionate Reserve’: Tact as Comedy 142
15. Bibliography 153
16. Index 171