The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope

A state-of-the-field review of critical perspectives on the work of Anthony Trollope.

For nearly 150 years, Anthony Trollope has been among the most admired of British novelists. This collection presents a balanced and diverse range of essays on Trollope, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and series writer whose novels traversed Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand, and genres from realism to science fiction, Trollope also published criticism, short fiction, travel writing and biography. The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope provides a state-of-the-field review of critical perspectives on his work, with the volume's sixteen essays addressing Trollope's biography, autobiography, canonical fiction, short stories and travel writing, as well as surveying diverse topics including gender, sexuality, vulgarity, and the law.