Anthony Trollope's Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) - Hardcover

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Frederik Van Dam is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has published in the fields of Victorian literature and intellectual history, and is one of the principal organizers of the 2015 Trollope Bicentennial Conference. His work has been supported by fellowships and travel grants funded by the Research Council Flanders (FWO) and the Special Research Fund KU Leuven (BOF). He has also received awards from the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education and the British Association for Victorian Studies. He has published in the Journal of Victorian Culture (2014) and Victoriographies (2011). This is his first book.

Frederik 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.

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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian CultureSeries editor: Julian WolfreysDrawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century’s literature and cultureAnthony Trollope’s Late StyleFrederik Van Dam‘Frederik Van Dam’s Anthony Trollope’s Late Style establishes its author as a brilliant leading expert globally on Anthony Trollope. It is far more than just an analysis of Trollope’s late style and presents wonderfully detailed readings of the author’s late works (1875 and onwards). It is a superb book in every way.’J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California at IrvineExplores the relation between Anthony Trollope’s stylistic innovations and Victorian liberalismHenry James famously dismissed Anthony Trollope’s ultimate compositions for their ‘fatal dryness of texture’ and ‘mechanical movement’. Taking its cue from James’s observations while challenging his assessment, this study suggests that the peculiar aesthetic of Trollope’s late novels was born out of his growing doubt about the viability of liberalism in a world increasingly marked by global capitalism. Anthony Trollope’s Late Style shows how in his late novels Trollope experiments with a multitude of literary conventions in order to articulate a form of subjectivity in which the individual element has been erased.Key Features•Examines the writings from the last decade of Trollope’s life that have received only scant critical attention, including his novellas and The Life of Cicero•Presents a panorama of Victorian intellectual debates on topics such as colonialism, marginalist economics, nationalism, the classics, pedagogy, legal reform, and urban sociability•Pays attention to the style of a major Victorian novelist often regarded as formally uninteresting•Reveals the radical politics behind Anthony Trollope’s artistic praxisFrederik Van Dam is a postdoctoral research fellow in English literature at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). He has written widely on the relationship between literature and intellectual discourse in the nineteenth century. His current research focuses on the impact of British diplomacy on the rhetoric of nineteenth-century cosmopolitanism, with particular attention to English and Irish views on the Risorgimento.