I Wrote Them All: Forgery and Forms of Classification in Trollope’s Orley Farm

[...]she is cleared of all charges, but Lady Mason is, in fact, guilty of both forgery and perjury. [...]a review in the National Magazine suggests that while Orley Farm had the potential to cross genres into sensation fiction, it does not: [...]when he enters the debate over the “great division” be...

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Published in:Victorian review 2019-10, Vol.45 (2), p.307-323
Main Author: GILBERT, KATHERINE
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
British & Irish literature
Classification
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
English literature
Fiction
Forgery
Genre
Legitimacy
Philology
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)
Women
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Summary:[...]she is cleared of all charges, but Lady Mason is, in fact, guilty of both forgery and perjury. [...]a review in the National Magazine suggests that while Orley Farm had the potential to cross genres into sensation fiction, it does not: [...]when he enters the debate over the “great division” between realist and sensation fiction, Trollope notes his identification as “a realist,” and then surprisingly complicates easy classification altogether: “All this is, I think, a mistake,—which . . . arises from the inability of the imperfect artist to be at the same time realistic and sensational. [...]I argue that it is these internal concerns with classification and its permeations—in a wide range of discourses, including scientific and legal—that make the novel itself difficult to classify.
ISSN:0848-1512
1923-3280
1923-3280
DOI:10.1353/vcr.2019.0061