Imprisoned at Newgate for kidnapping and eloping with the daughter of a silk-manufacturer, Wakefield met many prisoners facing transportation, prompting a study on colonization with Robert Gourger’s help. 2004): 272–283 and my article, “ The Fixed Period (1882): Euthanasia, Cannibalism, and Colonial Extinction in Trollope’s Antipodes,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal 25. Sam Silverman, “Trollope’s Fixed Period: A Nineteenth-Century Novel Revisited,” Illness, Crisis, and Loss 12. Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) Nicholas Birns, “Trollope and the Antipodes,” The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, eds. See also Nicholas Birns, “The Empire Turned upside Down: The Colonial Fictions of Anthony Trollope,” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 27. 2 (1999): 16–24 ĭominic Alessio, “A Conservative Utopia? Anthony Trollope’s The Fixed Period (1882),” Journal of New Zealand Literature 22 (2004): 73–94 Īnd Jane Nardin, “Utopian Logic in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall and Anthony Trollope’s The Fixed Period,” AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 116 (Nov. Rogers, “ The Fixed Period: Trollope’s ‘Modest Proposal,’” Utopian Studies: Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies 10. Robert Tracy, Trollope’s Later Novels (Berkeley: University of Berkeley Press, 1978) Īnd Richard Mullen Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World (London: Duckworth, 1990).Ĭriticism on Trollope’s treatment of utopias includes Henry N.

James Kincaid, The Novels of Anthony Trollope (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977) See Robert Polhemus, The Changing World of Anthony Trollope (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968) This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. And in challenging such orthodoxies in a proto-modernist exploration of the unconscious and critique of humanism, Trollope also entertains the idea of putting himself in someone else’s shoes, so to speak, of occupying “the mental position of those who think differently” (Mill 93). Approaching Butler’s “crossing” of contrary ideas and Domett’s delight in indeterminacy and the oxymoron as evident in the above link of cannibalism and philanthropy, Trollope further destabilizes the Enlightenment dyad shoring up Victorian discourses of empire. In a late futuristic novel of antipodean oddities and reversals entitled The Fixed Period (1882), the Victorian novelist and intrepid traveler, Anthony Trollope, continues Samuel Butler’s dialectic exploration of the absurdities of custom produced by the colonial contact zone, which the structure of the Antipodes made easier to conceptualize.

The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope