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Anthony Trollope’s Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780748699551.
In his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope posits the ideal of a man without style: ‘I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author’s written language’. Trollope’s own appearance, unlike his written language, did not pass without observation. A contemporary poet recollects that he was ‘hirsute and taurine of aspect’. Anthony Trollope's Late Style unravels this paradox. It disentangles the many threads in Trollope’s ostensibly transparent writing and reassembles the political and intellectual fabric that they weave, thus showing how Trollope’s language exceeds and questions the concepts provided by contemporary ideologies. More information can be found on the website of Edinburgh UP. |
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Frederik Van Dam’s Anthony Trollope’s Late Style is far more than just an analysis of Trollope’s late style and presents wonderfully detailed readings of Trollope’s late works [...]. It is a superb book in every way.
-- J. Hillis Miller, University of California at Irvine
Frederik Van Dam’s wide-ranging new book makes a compelling contribution to this conversation that wisely refuses to assign Trollope either to the liberal or the conservative camp. [...] Van Dam’s own style—early and not late, at least in the chronological sense, given that this is his first book—reveals the sociable and egalitarian instincts that he attributes to the later Trollope.
-- Matthew Sussman, University of Sydney, Review of English Studies
I am wholly impressed by Van Dam's erudition and deep intelligence, which are both manifestly evident in this book. His Continental perspective brings us literary comparisons to Heine and Goethe, and a familiarity with theorists from Bakhtin to Benjamin. The Notes alone are compelling reading and a tremendous source of historical and theoretical contexts, as well as offering more commentary from previous Trollope scholars.
-- Deborah Denenholz Morse, College of Wiliam and Mary, Review 19
Trollope has been displaced by a more unstable and troubled figure--a beleaguered, restless casualty of contingency and inner conflict, stranded where he didn't want to be and wanting to be remarkable for reasons other than those that made him so.
-- John Pemble, University of Bristol, London Review of Books
-- J. Hillis Miller, University of California at Irvine
Frederik Van Dam’s wide-ranging new book makes a compelling contribution to this conversation that wisely refuses to assign Trollope either to the liberal or the conservative camp. [...] Van Dam’s own style—early and not late, at least in the chronological sense, given that this is his first book—reveals the sociable and egalitarian instincts that he attributes to the later Trollope.
-- Matthew Sussman, University of Sydney, Review of English Studies
I am wholly impressed by Van Dam's erudition and deep intelligence, which are both manifestly evident in this book. His Continental perspective brings us literary comparisons to Heine and Goethe, and a familiarity with theorists from Bakhtin to Benjamin. The Notes alone are compelling reading and a tremendous source of historical and theoretical contexts, as well as offering more commentary from previous Trollope scholars.
-- Deborah Denenholz Morse, College of Wiliam and Mary, Review 19
Trollope has been displaced by a more unstable and troubled figure--a beleaguered, restless casualty of contingency and inner conflict, stranded where he didn't want to be and wanting to be remarkable for reasons other than those that made him so.
-- John Pemble, University of Bristol, London Review of Books
Edited collections
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The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope. Eds. Frederik Van Dam, David Skilton, and Ortwin de Graef. Edinburgh: University Press, 2018.
Since the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has become a central figure in the critical understanding of Victorian literature. By bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays involves the reader in new approaches to Trollope's work. The contributors to this volume highlight dimensions that have hitherto received only scant attention and in doing so they aim to draw on the aesthetic capabilities of Trollope's twenty-first-century readers. Instead of reading Trollope's novels as manifestations of social theory, they aim to foster an engagement with a far more broadly theorised literary culture. More information can be found on the website of Edinburgh UP. |
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A wide-ranging collection of some of the best critics in English on Britain’s preeminent political novelist.
I particularly appreciate the international dimension, Trollope in and on Asia, Australasia, Latin America and Russia.
-- Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter
I particularly appreciate the international dimension, Trollope in and on Asia, Australasia, Latin America and Russia.
-- Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter
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Getting and Spending. Eds. Frederik Van Dam, Silvana Colella, and Brecht de Groote. European Journal of English Studies 21.1 (2017).
Building on the achievements of the New Economic Criticism, literary critics have continued to expand our understanding of the many points of contact and separation between literature and economics. This issue aims to push established scholarship into new directions. It seeks to explore new approaches and methodologies and thus to shed light on some of the many connections between literary texts and, to use William Wordsworth’s words, ‘Getting and Spending’. The contributions span a wide historical range and reflect, in different ways, about the New Economic Criticism in European contexts. |
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From 2019 to 2022, I was the literature editor of the journal English Text Construction, which is published by on John Benjamins. The journal stands out for work at the intersection of literary studies and (applied) linguistics.
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Articles
‘Songs without Sunrise: Irish Victorian Poetry and the Risorgimento.’ Languages, Cultures, Mediations 9.1 (2022). 57–80.
‘From Error to Terror: The Romantic Inheritance in W. H. Auden’s “In Time of War”.’ Partial Answers 20.1 (2022). 151–174.
‘An Outpost of Modernism: The Diplomatic Design of Cosmopolis.’ Victoriographies 8.2 (2018). 170–186.
‘Anthony Trollope and the Risorgimento.’ English Literary History 85.1 (2018): 171-189.
‘The Pleasure of that Obstinacy: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller.’ Victoriographies 8.1 (2018): 120–134.
‘Waterloo Remembered: Thomas Moore and the Literary Reception of the Battle of Waterloo in the Nineteenth Century.’ Studies in Romanticism 56.4 (2017): 379–398.
‘Getting and Spending.’ European Journal of English Studies 21.1 (2017): 1–12.
‘Liberal Formalisms.’ European Journal of English Studies 20.3 (2016): 236–248.
‘“Wholesome Lessons”: Love as Tact between Matthew Arnold and Anthony Trollope.’ Partial Answers 12.2 (2014): 287–310.
‘Victorian Instincts: Anthony Trollope and the Philosophy of Law.’ Literature Compass 9.11 (2012): 801–812.
‘Character and the Career: Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn and the Rhetoric of the Victorian State.’ English Text Construction 2.1 (2009): 91–110.
‘From Error to Terror: The Romantic Inheritance in W. H. Auden’s “In Time of War”.’ Partial Answers 20.1 (2022). 151–174.
‘An Outpost of Modernism: The Diplomatic Design of Cosmopolis.’ Victoriographies 8.2 (2018). 170–186.
‘Anthony Trollope and the Risorgimento.’ English Literary History 85.1 (2018): 171-189.
‘The Pleasure of that Obstinacy: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller.’ Victoriographies 8.1 (2018): 120–134.
‘Waterloo Remembered: Thomas Moore and the Literary Reception of the Battle of Waterloo in the Nineteenth Century.’ Studies in Romanticism 56.4 (2017): 379–398.
‘Getting and Spending.’ European Journal of English Studies 21.1 (2017): 1–12.
‘Liberal Formalisms.’ European Journal of English Studies 20.3 (2016): 236–248.
‘“Wholesome Lessons”: Love as Tact between Matthew Arnold and Anthony Trollope.’ Partial Answers 12.2 (2014): 287–310.
‘Victorian Instincts: Anthony Trollope and the Philosophy of Law.’ Literature Compass 9.11 (2012): 801–812.
‘Character and the Career: Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn and the Rhetoric of the Victorian State.’ English Text Construction 2.1 (2009): 91–110.
Chapters
‘Safety as Nostalgia: Institutions and Infrastructure in Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday (1942) and Beware of Pity (1938).’
The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security. Eds. Jan Oosterholt and Gemma Blok. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Forthcoming.
‘Beyond the Art of Conversation: Cosmopolitanism and Diplomacy in the Works of Richard Monckton Milnes.’
19th-century Literature in Transition: The 1850s. Eds. Gail Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
‘Hellenising the Roman Past: Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean and Anthony Trollope’s The Life of Cicero.’ Reading 19th Century Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller. Eds. Julian Wolfreys and Monika Szuba. Edinburgh UP, 2019. 237-251.
Taking Offence at the World: The Reception of Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte (1892) in Sándor Márai’s Sirály (1943). Contemporary and Recent Hungarian Fiction: Reception and Cross-Cultural Interpretations. Eds. Tibor Gintli and János Kenyeres. Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2022.
‘Adapting as a Form of Remediation: A Benjaminian Perspective.’ Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery. Eds. Keith Williams, Chris Murray, Jan Baetens, and Sophie Aymes. Word and Image Interactions, Vol. 9. Amsterdam and New York: Brill / Rodopi, 2019. 295-306.
‘Introduction.’ The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope. Eds. Frederik Van Dam, David Skilton, and Ortwin de Graef. Edinburgh UP, 2019. 1-9.
‘Liberal Formalism.’ The Politics of Form. Eds. Sarah Copland and Greta Olson. London: Routledge, 2018. 30-42.
‘Trollope and Politics.’ The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Eds. Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margeret Markwick, and Mark Turner. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Co-authored with Lauren M. E. Goodlad. 15–34.
‘Allegorical Landscapes: The Psychology of Seeing in Anthony Trollope’s Later Novels.’ Transforming Anthony Trollope: Dispossession, Victorianism and Nineteenth-Century Word and Image. Eds. Laurence Grove and Simon Grennan. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2015. 71–87.
‘“Der Schrei des Marsyas”: On the Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl’s MutterVaterRoman.’ Twenty Years On: Competing Memories of the GDR in Postunification Germany. Eds. Renate Rechtien and Dennis Tate. Rochester (NY): Camden House, 2011. 69–84. Co-authored with Arne De Winde.
The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security. Eds. Jan Oosterholt and Gemma Blok. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Forthcoming.
‘Beyond the Art of Conversation: Cosmopolitanism and Diplomacy in the Works of Richard Monckton Milnes.’
19th-century Literature in Transition: The 1850s. Eds. Gail Marshall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
‘Hellenising the Roman Past: Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean and Anthony Trollope’s The Life of Cicero.’ Reading 19th Century Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller. Eds. Julian Wolfreys and Monika Szuba. Edinburgh UP, 2019. 237-251.
Taking Offence at the World: The Reception of Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte (1892) in Sándor Márai’s Sirály (1943). Contemporary and Recent Hungarian Fiction: Reception and Cross-Cultural Interpretations. Eds. Tibor Gintli and János Kenyeres. Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2022.
‘Adapting as a Form of Remediation: A Benjaminian Perspective.’ Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery. Eds. Keith Williams, Chris Murray, Jan Baetens, and Sophie Aymes. Word and Image Interactions, Vol. 9. Amsterdam and New York: Brill / Rodopi, 2019. 295-306.
‘Introduction.’ The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope. Eds. Frederik Van Dam, David Skilton, and Ortwin de Graef. Edinburgh UP, 2019. 1-9.
‘Liberal Formalism.’ The Politics of Form. Eds. Sarah Copland and Greta Olson. London: Routledge, 2018. 30-42.
‘Trollope and Politics.’ The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Eds. Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margeret Markwick, and Mark Turner. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Co-authored with Lauren M. E. Goodlad. 15–34.
‘Allegorical Landscapes: The Psychology of Seeing in Anthony Trollope’s Later Novels.’ Transforming Anthony Trollope: Dispossession, Victorianism and Nineteenth-Century Word and Image. Eds. Laurence Grove and Simon Grennan. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2015. 71–87.
‘“Der Schrei des Marsyas”: On the Mythic Voices of the Subaltern in Reinhard Jirgl’s MutterVaterRoman.’ Twenty Years On: Competing Memories of the GDR in Postunification Germany. Eds. Renate Rechtien and Dennis Tate. Rochester (NY): Camden House, 2011. 69–84. Co-authored with Arne De Winde.
Reviews
‘Kwesties van betekenis: Over de rol van fictie in de geschiedenis van het publieke vertoog.’ Review of The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond, by Holly Case. Karakter: Tijdschrift van Wetenschap 68 (2019): 12–14.
‘Fictions of Culture.’ Review of Francis Mulhern’s Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel. New Left Review 115 (January-February 2019): 131-140.
“The Tragedy of Dispossession.” Review of John McCourt’s Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016). Breac (2017).
“Forms of Englishness in Trollope and Tennyson.” Review of Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope by Deborah Denenholz Morse, and Tennyson and the Fabrication of Englishness by Marion Sherwood. Journal of Victorian Culture 20.3 (2015): 418-422.
Review of Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination, by Janet C. Myers. Victoriographies 1.1 (2011): 147-149.
‘Fictions of Culture.’ Review of Francis Mulhern’s Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel. New Left Review 115 (January-February 2019): 131-140.
“The Tragedy of Dispossession.” Review of John McCourt’s Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016). Breac (2017).
“Forms of Englishness in Trollope and Tennyson.” Review of Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope by Deborah Denenholz Morse, and Tennyson and the Fabrication of Englishness by Marion Sherwood. Journal of Victorian Culture 20.3 (2015): 418-422.
Review of Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination, by Janet C. Myers. Victoriographies 1.1 (2011): 147-149.
Online publications and op-eds
‘Next level? The pros and cons of game-based learning.’ Times Higher Education (25 July 2022)
‘Slowing down earlier in the pandemic went well – so why speed back up?’ Times Higher Education (7 March 2022)
‘A Certain Rapture: A Glimpse into the World of First-Person Walker Games.’ Culture Weekly, 2022
‘Parisian Paradoxes.’ Culture Weekly, 2019
‘On W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Cat and the Moon’. Culture Weekly, 2019
‘Fantastic Flying Books.’ Culture Weekly, 2017
‘Het plezier van de halsstarrigheid.’ Culture Weekly, 2017
‘Slowing down earlier in the pandemic went well – so why speed back up?’ Times Higher Education (7 March 2022)
‘A Certain Rapture: A Glimpse into the World of First-Person Walker Games.’ Culture Weekly, 2022
‘Parisian Paradoxes.’ Culture Weekly, 2019
‘On W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Cat and the Moon’. Culture Weekly, 2019
‘Fantastic Flying Books.’ Culture Weekly, 2017
‘Het plezier van de halsstarrigheid.’ Culture Weekly, 2017
Popular publications
‘Anthony Trollope: The Belgian Connection.’ Trollopiana 106 (Winter 2016/2017). 1–17.
‘Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.’ Utopia & More: Thomas More, de Nederlanden en de Utopische Traditie. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia. Eds. Dirk Sacré, Erik De Bom, Demmy Verbeke, and Gilbert Tournoy. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2016. 406–407.
‘Sexy Alexei.’ De Adelaar van Benidorm: Over Bijnamen in de Sport. Eds. Arne De Winde and Pieter Verstraeten. Hautekiet, 2015: 236.
‘A Victorian against the Grain: The Western Canon and the Case of Anthony Trollope.’ Trollopiana 83 (2009): 22–29.
‘Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.’ Utopia & More: Thomas More, de Nederlanden en de Utopische Traditie. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia. Eds. Dirk Sacré, Erik De Bom, Demmy Verbeke, and Gilbert Tournoy. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2016. 406–407.
‘Sexy Alexei.’ De Adelaar van Benidorm: Over Bijnamen in de Sport. Eds. Arne De Winde and Pieter Verstraeten. Hautekiet, 2015: 236.
‘A Victorian against the Grain: The Western Canon and the Case of Anthony Trollope.’ Trollopiana 83 (2009): 22–29.
Invited lectures
‘Songs without Sunrise: Irish Literature and the Risorgimento in the Victorian Age.’ 13th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, National University of Ireland, Galway, 22–26 August 2016.
‘Late Style and the Victorian Novel: The Case of Anthony Trollope.’ Nineteenth-Century Graduate Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 24 May 2016.
‘Late Style and the Victorian Novel: The Case of Anthony Trollope.’ Nineteenth-Century Graduate Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 24 May 2016.
