| Автор | Craig, David M. |
| Дата выпуска | 2010 |
| dc.description | When, on 17 November 1868, Anthony Trollope came bottom of the poll at Beverley in Yorkshire, his cherished ambition to become a Liberal MP was at an end. He had advocated the key elements of the liberal program – Irish Church disestablishment and national education – but this mattered little in a notoriously corrupt borough which was shortly to be stripped of its representation (Tingay). He later explained in his Autobiography (1883) that since he was deprived of a parliamentary seat, he instead used characters in his fiction “for the expression of my political or social convictions . . . they have served me as safety-valves by which to deliver my soul” (112–13). This reflection starkly conveys the sense of a man literally bursting with opinions, but it sits oddly with the common view of critics that Trollope's parliamentary novels depicted political life primarily in social terms; that unlike Disraeli he was not especially interested in exploring issues and testing convictions; and that he had “very few political ideas” (Brantlinger 209). |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Копирайт | Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010 |
| Название | ADVANCED CONSERVATIVE LIBERALISM: PARTY AND PRINCIPLE IN TROLLOPE'S PARLIAMENTARY NOVELS |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1017/S1060150310000033 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1470-1553 |
| Print ISSN | 1060-1503 |
| Журнал | Victorian Literature and Culture |
| Том | 38 |
| Первая страница | 355 |
| Последняя страница | 371 |
| Аффилиация | Craig David M.; Durham University |
| Выпуск | 2 |
