Politics of Public Opinion in the Novels of Anthony Trollope - A ''Tenth Muse''

The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope''s 'Tenth Muse' takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a "voice" that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with "empty universals" that generate meaning.

List of contents

Preface: Overture to an Initial Public Offering; Chapter One The "Prosthetic Body" of Public Opinion in Barsetshire; Chapter Two Miming the Law; Chapter Three "Playing" the Opinion Market; Chapter Four The "Management" of Public Opinion in Trollope's Bureaucracies; Chapter Five The Sugar; Index

About the author

Jan B. Gordon was one of a group of six foreign academics invited to professorships at National Universities in Japan when the law was changed in 1983 prohibiting non-Japanese from holding such positions. He was granted Emeritus Status in 2004 and from 2007 to 2014 was a distinguished professor at Kyoto Women's Department of English. He was therefore initially what is known as a white (affirmative action) appointment.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Gordon, Gordon Jan
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781839994951
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-495-1
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, Literature & literary studies, Society and Social Sciences, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, 19th century British fiction