Everyone and Everything in Trollope: v. 1-4 - Hardcover

Newlin, George; Tracy, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765613204 ISBN 13: 9780765613202

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

For the first time all the characters in the complete works of Anthony Trollope, the most prolific writer of the Victorian age, are analyzed in one definitive reference. George Newlin does for Trollope what he did for Dickens in his award-winning Everyone in Dickens. This comprehensive four-volume set makes Trollope's complete oeuvre accessible to the general reader as well as the scholar. It deals with all the fiction - forty-seven novels and forty-six short stories - and more than two hundred nonfiction pieces, and assembles all works confirmed as by Trollope with their titles and dates of publications. More than 4,500 characters are analyzed and thousands more minor characters presented in this monumental resource. Volumes I and II cover the novels - using Trollope's own words, Newlin presents all the characters in the novels and also provides useful plot and content summaries and bibliographic data. Volume III covers the shorter fiction - short stories, sketches, and plays - and also features a cross-reference to all the fiction that provides meticulous detail on localities, historical figures, occupations, and relationships. In addition, there is a compilation of all Latin quotations with translations and sources. The complete nonfiction works are covered in Volume IV, along with a thematic concordance on nearly every aspect of life that Trollope wrote about. This exhaustive reference includes numerous illustrations, particularly those of John Everett Millais, which were printed in the Trollope first editions. Bibliographic information lists and dates all elements in the Trollope oeuvre and many works by Trollope scholars. As a starting point for research on every imaginable aspect of Trollope's work, this set is truly indispensable.

About this title

From Booklist:

The reputation of the most prolific Victorian novelist underwent an eclipse after his death but has recovered in recent years, and several of his novels have made the leap from graduate-seminar fare to slick adaptations for Masterpiece Theatre. In this set, Newlin, who also compiled Everyone in Dickens (Greenwood, 1995), covers Trollope's work in exhaustive detail. The first two volumes treat the novels, the third is devoted to short fiction and sketches, and the fourth covers nonfiction.

The 47 novels are arranged by Trollope's principal themes, such as "Bartsetshire" (the fictional English county where several of the books are set) and "Family Law." For each novel, Newlin provides a chapter-by-chapter plot summary and excerpts passages describing each character, major and minor. Some of the descriptions for principal characters cover more than 10 pages. In volumes 3 and 4, Trollope's shorter works and nonfiction writings are similarly treated but arranged by type--short stories, sketches, plays, or, in the case of nonfiction, by subject or locale. Each volume has an index that is specific to it and lists all the fictional characters and real people who are mentioned, including those with no names (bailiff, in a decent coat). Volume 3 also contains a variety of set indexes through which one can track down, for example, all of the horses or lady's maids that inhabit Trollope's world. Volume 4 includes the "Topicon," a Trollope concordance with his words on everything from good and evil to central heating.

This is not a resource for the faint of heart. The organization is hard to decipher, and the amount of detail is almost overwhelming. Even devoted fans will probably be happier with the Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope (1999). Newlin has done a service for the advanced reader and the scholar, however, and Everyone and Everything in Trollope belongs in collections supporting Trollope research or Victorian studies. Mary Ellen Quinn
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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0765613204
• ISBN 13: 9780765613202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 3942