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 as Herbert describes it was antagonistic to the repressive moral ethos widely ...
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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 as Herbert describes it was antagonistic to the repressive moral ethos widely prevalent in Victorian England. Herbert shows how Trollope, under a mask of self-proclaimed conventionality, employed this mode in a steady, sometimes scandalous critique of the Victorian subversion of pleasure. Drawing on Trollope's unpublished notes on seventeenth-century drama and bringing to light many instances in the novels of direct borrowings from old plays, Herbert demonstrates the inventiveness and subtlety of Trollope's deployment of comic materials. Thematically organized around such subjects as Trollope's investigations of sex, his formal structures, and his principles of "realism," Herbert's study includes detailed readings of two of the nineteenth century's most ambitious exercises in comedy: The Way We Live Now and Trollope's neglected masterpiece, Ayala's Angel . Of primary importance for readers of Trollope and students of comedy, Herbert's study will also prove valuable to those interested more generally in Victorian and modern fiction and the cultural history of the Victorian age.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Gift quality hardcover in red paper covered boards showing sharp tips and spine ends. 245pp text is fine, crisp and appears unread. Unclipped, unpriced dust wrapper shows light handling soil at periphery/fore edge is the only fault seen. A work of research. Drawing on Trollope's unpublished notes on seventeenth-century drama and bringing light to many instances in the novels of direct borrowings from old plays, Herbert reveals Trollope carrying out a steady critique of the Victorian subversion of pleasure and in doing so by means of a subtle and almost recklessly inventive deployment of comic materials. Herbert emphasizes the tension between Trollop's allegiance to comic pleasure and his strain of moral earnestness, a tension that is symptomatic of strains in Victorian culture at large but here pays rich dividends, yielding much of the novelists richest and most suggestive and problematic writing.
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1987 Herbert, Christopher TROLLOPE AND COMIC PLEASURE Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, c1987 first printing 245pp, index, bibliography 8vo as new unread hardcover in d/j.
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