Tag Archives: Anthony Trollope

Principle or Expedience?

By Robin Bates | Published: June 16, 2014

Trollopes “Last Chronicle of Barset” pits principle against expediency in a fascinating struggle.

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Unhinged Partisanship

By Robin Bates | Published: January 15, 2014

Anthony Trollope shows us partisanship at its worst.

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No More Privacy–And We Don’t Care

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2013

We no longer fiercely guide our privacy, as did the worlds of Austen, Trollope, Thoreau, and Melville.

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Readers Hold the Key to a Book’s Meaning

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2013

Increasingly scholars are looking at what books do to us and what we do to books.

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Trollope, the Cure for What Ails Our Politics

By Robin Bates | Published: June 13, 2011

David Brooks uses Anthony Trollope’s novel “Phineas Finn” to examine a very pressing issue, the tension between independence and service in our politicians.

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