'Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution, race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging, sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.'
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'Writing of Trollope’s 1859 travelogue The West Indies and the Spanish Main , Claudia Brandenstein has, in an argument influenced by the work of Mary Louise Pratt, described his approach to the landscape as a type of taking possession. For Brandenstein, Trollope engages in the ‘production of the monarch-of-all-I survey scene’ (15), depicting landscapes that are ‘feminized’ and ‘easily subdued’ (19), stemming from a feeling of proprietorial entitlement, which is underpinned by a British imperialist sense of mastery over the West Indian colonial holdings. This approach to the colonial landscape is a common feature in both painting and travel writing of the nineteenth century. Simon Ryan, for instance, has put forward a similar argument with regard to contemporary accounts of the Australian scenery. According to Ryan, explorers and other chroniclers frequently depicted the Australian countryside as ‘well adapted’ for settlement, deploying a European aesthetic lens of the picturesque as a means of taming its more confronting elements and uncanny vistas (74).'
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