Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope

The second in the new series of Oxford Reader's Companions, following Dickens. This comprehensive work brings together the world's leading Trollope scholars to provide an accessible, authoritative, and wide-ranging reference source to this unparalleled figure of 19th-century letters. In more than 500 A-Z entries, Trollope's own life, his works, and the historical and social context in which he lived are all explored in detail. Familiar aspects, such as his work at the Post Office and...
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The second in the new series of Oxford Reader's Companions, following Dickens. This comprehensive work brings together the world's leading Trollope scholars to provide an accessible, authoritative, and wide-ranging reference source to this unparalleled figure of 19th-century letters. In more than 500 A-Z entries, Trollope's own life, his works, and the historical and social context in which he lived are all explored in detail. Familiar aspects, such as his work at the Post Office and his series of novels, appear alongside items only recently addressed by scholars: his work as a biographer and journalist; the importance of his extensive travels abroad; the astonishing reappraisal of his work over the last few decades. The book also includes a useful thematic overview of entries, a chronology of Trollope's life, family trees, a comprehensive bibliography for further reading and maps of Trollope's travels.