{"product_id":"novel-machine","title":"Novel-Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1980. The first section of \u003ci\u003eThe Novel-Machine\u003c\/i\u003e consists of five short chapters that rewrite \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e as an undisguised theory of realistic fiction, exploring its paradoxes while placing it in the context of mid-Victorian criticism. Chapters 6 and 7 survey the manifestations in Trollope's novels of what his theory sets down as the primary difference of realism: its way of telling its readers how to read. Chapter 8 is a close reading of \u003ci\u003eHe Knew He Was Right\u003c\/i\u003e, a neglected novel that, in Kendrick's estimation, deserves to stand in much higher critical esteem than it does. Kendrick shows how deeply woven into the texture of Trollope's writing the rhetoric of realism is. Kendrick's reading is a departure from the usual method of criticizing Trollope—surveying the whole of his work a novel at a time, saying a little about every novel and always too little about each.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54226544460120,"sku":"9781421434001","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781421434001__67742971442b2_f5c488c0-0204-45c4-a38a-9bfffa790309.jpg?v=1741156477","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/novel-machine","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}