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One can readily imagine the satisfaction of the reviewer of the Spectator when he or she cast their eyes over the pages of Phineas Finn. ‘Kennedy is as perfectly sketched as Chiltern’, the review exclaimed.1 Polar opposites in character, the lord and laird certainly invite comparison, particularly so in reference to the novel’s main figure, Phineas Finn.
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Notes
Philip Mason, The English Gentleman: The Rise and Fall of an Ideal (London: André Deutsch, 1982), p. 13.
Andrew Dowling, Manliness and the Male Novelist in Victorian Literature (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), p. 85.
Wilkie Collins, Man and Wife (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1995), p. 211.
Juliet McMaster, Trollope’s Palliser Novels: Theme and Pattern (London: Macmillan, 1978), p. 67.
Pierce Egan, Every Gentleman’s Manual: A Lecture on the Art of Self-Defence (London: Flintoff, 1851), pp. 16–18.
Brookes, John Brookes, Manliness: Hints to Young Men (London: James Blackwood, 1859), p. 10.
John Halperin, Trollope and Politics: A Study of the Pallisers and Others (London: Macmillan, 1977), p. 71.
Henry W. Holland, ‘The Art of Self-Protection against Thieves and Robbers’, Good Words, 7 (1866), 847–51, p. 851.
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Godfrey, E. (2011). Lord Chiltern and Mr Kennedy. In: Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294998_6
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