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Hardcover Trollope and Comic Pleasure Book
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ISBN: 0226327418

ISBN13: 9780226327419

Trollope and Comic Pleasure

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Challenging the sentimentalized and moralized view of comedy that prevails in modern criticism, Christopher Herbert outlines a theory of comedy as a mode whose dominant motive and function is the glorification of pleasure. Using this model, he presents a detailed study of Anthony Trollope that sharply contradicts the persistent image of this novelist as a conventional writer and complacent spokesman for middle-class pieties.

The comic mode...

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