Writing the Frontier

Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which was his home for 15 years and was the location of his first personal and professional successes. It offers an in-depth exploration of Trollope's time in Ireland as a rising Post Office official, contextualising his Irish novels and short stories and his ongoing interest in the country, its people, and its relationship with Britain. When given their just place, Trollope's neglected Irish novels alter our overall view of the writer and show him occupying a unique mediating position in representing Ireland to an English public.