Anthony Trollope's Late Style

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.

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 Trollope’s late works (1875 and onwards). It　is a superb book in every way.

• Acknowledgements; Note on Editions and Dates; 1. Introduction: Trollope’s Late Modernity; 2. ‘Getting and Spending’: The Aesthetic Economist; 3. ‘A Bond of Discord’: Colonialism and Allegory; 4. ‘Convivial in a Cadaverous Fashion’: Satires on Sovereignty; 5. ‘Active Citizens of a Free State’: Hellenising the History of Rome; 6. ‘The Tone of Today’: Pedagogical Paraphrases; 7. ‘An Admirable Shrewdness’: Character and the Law; 8. ‘A Poise So Perfect’: Tact as Love; 9. ‘Affectionate Reserve’: Tact as Comedy; Bibliography.