Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Style
7. 1 Almost Trollope 11
8. 2 He Had Taught Himself to Think: Anthony Trollope on Self-Control in Knowledge and Belief 30
9. 3 The Physiology of the Everyday: Trollope’s Deflected Intimacies of Clothing, Touch and Free Indirect Discourse 44
10. 4 ‘Rubbish and Paste’: Reading and Recurrence in AN OLD MAN’S LOVE 63
11. 5 Reading AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY as Advice Literature 79
12. 6 Trollope, Seriality, Series 91
13. Part II Circulation
14. 7 A Christmas Cavil: Trollope Re-Writes Dickens in the Outback 115
15. 8 Creation as Criticism: Anthony Trollope, Anthony Powell and Elizabeth Bishop 128
16. 9 The Way We Counterlive Now: Trollope’s Fictional Heritage 143
17. 10 Trollope in China: Trollope’s Transculturation from the Late Qing Dynasty to the Present 156
18. 11 Trollope and Russia 176
19. 12 Reading Trollope in New Zealand 190
20. Part III Media Networks
21. 13 Realism v. Realpolitik: Trollope and the Parliamentary Career Manqué 201
22. 14 In-Between Times: Trollope’s Ordinal Numbers 228
23. 15 Mimesis, Media Archaeology and the Postage Stamp in JOHN CALDIGATE 242
24. 16 Trollope’s Living Media: Fox Hunts and Marriage Plots 255
25. 17 Lane-ism: Anthony Trollope’s Irish Roads in Time and Space 272
26. 18 Imperial Logistics: Trollope and the Question of Central America 288
27. Part IV Economics
28. 19 High Interest and Impaired Security: Trollope’s Women Investors 301
29. 20 THE WAY WE LIVE NOW and the Meaning of Montagu Square 317
30. 21 ‘Ceade mille faltha’: Questions of Hospitality in the Irish Trollope 330
31. 22 Power in Numbers: Fetishes and Facts between Trollope and Law 344
32. 23 Shoddy Trollope 362
33. Index 376