Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse s radical rethinking of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of Trollope s critical reception, Morse traces the ways in which Trollope s responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1860s and 1870s are reflected in his novels. She argues that as Trollope s ideas about gender and race evolved over those two crucial decades, his politics became more liberal. The first section of the book analyzes these...

The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' obsession with animals. Combining close attention to historical detail with a sophisticated analytical framework, the contributors examine the various forms of human dominion over animals, including imaginative possession of animals in the realms of fiction, performance, and the visual arts, as well...