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Trollope famously defined himself as an “advanced, but still a conservative, Liberal” (Trollope 1946) 257. In Britain, he is widely read and often invoked by politicians in the media, while in North America his liberalism on issues of gender , race, reform, sexuality, etc., is subtly appreciated by scholars. This chapter “Trollope’s Modernity: the Speed-up, Stress, and Resentments of a Public Sphere” focuses on Britain’s preeminent political novelist’s representation of the unleisured, modern, managerial classes, the resentment they gave rise to, and the position of women within them, providing a genealogy of Trollope’s liberalism. I then trace Trollope’s circulation since the nineteenth century, his representing modern liberalization in China and Russia and landed property in the settler colonies in Australasia . The chapter concludes with a South Asian image of a discursive public sphere resonant of Trollope’s Britain.
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Gagnier, R. (2018). Trollope’s Modernity: The Speed-up, Stress, and Resentments of a Public Sphere. In: Literatures of Liberalization. New Comparisons in World Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98419-3_4
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