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Originally published in 1980. The first section of The Novel-Machine consists of five short chapters that rewrite Autobiography as an undisguised theory of realistic fiction, exploring its paradoxes while placing it in the context of mid-Victorian criticism. Chapters 6 and 7 survey the manifestations in Trollope's novels of what his theory sets down as the primary difference of realism: its way of telling its readers how to read. Chapter 8 is a close reading of He Knew He Was Right, a neglected novel that, in Kendrick's estimation, deserves to stand in much higher critical esteem than it does. Kendrick shows how deeply woven into the texture of Trollope's writing the rhetoric of realism is. Kendrick's reading is a departure from the usual method of criticizing Trollopesurveying the whole of his work a novel at a time, saying a little about every novel and always too little about each.

Table of Contents

Preface
Notes on Texts
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: A World under Glass
Chapter 2. The Death of Anthony Trollope
Chapter 3. Character and Conveyance
Chapter 4. Writing
Chapter 5. The Other Machine
Chapter 6. The Rhetoric of Reality
Chapter 7. Writing Love
Chapter 8. Writing Madness: He Knew He Was Right
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781421434001
      978-1421434001
      ISBN-10 1421434008
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1980. The first section of The Novel-Machine consists of five short chapters that rewrite Autobiography as an undisguised theory of realistic fiction, exploring its paradoxes while placing it in the context of mid-Victorian criticism. Chapters 6 and 7 survey the manifestations in Trollope's novels of what his theory sets down as the primary difference of realism: its way of telling its readers how to read. Chapter 8 is a close reading of He Knew He Was Right, a neglected novel that, in Kendrick's estimation, deserves to stand in much higher critical esteem than it does. Kendrick shows how deeply woven into the texture of Trollope's writing the rhetoric of realism is. Kendrick's reading is a departure from the usual method of criticizing Trollopesurveying the whole of his work a novel at a time, saying a little about every novel and always too little about each.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Notes on Texts
      Contents
      Chapter 1. Introduction: A World under Glass
      Chapter 2. The Death of Anthony Trollope
      Chapter 3. Character and Conveyance
      Chapter 4. Writing
      Chapter 5. The Other Machine
      Chapter 6. The Rhetoric of Reality
      Chapter 7. Writing Love
      Chapter 8. Writing Madness: He Knew He Was Right
      Index

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