Trollope, Anthony

This dissertation joins an emerging conversation within both Victorian and Irish literary circles about the role of Anthony Trollope as a distinctly Irish novelist. It explores the position Trollope played in being a self-described mediator between England and Ireland at a very …

This dissertation argues that Victorian novels commonly depict newspaper reading in order to explain and critique the kind of national feeling elicited by the popular press. While Benedict Anderson considers the ways in which reading newspapers and novels fosters a sense of nati…

This dissertation addresses the lack of postcolonial criticism concerning the fiction of Anthony Trollope, himself an avid traveler in and writer about the British Empire. Chapter One provides background about the critical reception of Trollope's writings about the Empire and tr…