The Eustace Diamonds: The Truth of Trollope's Fiction

Kendrick, Walter

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“…The Trollopian narrator, indeed, often betrays an anxiety not to betray his audience and is apt to give away the secret of his legal mysteries as soon as they have been created. He tells us the truth, which creates a story that thrives on Lizzie’s untruthfulness: as Walter Kendrick puts it, ‘the paradox of Trollope’s realism is that it lives on the energy of what it condemns’ (156). The diamonds are therefore no longer of narrative interest because of their contested nature, but because of their capacity to cause confusion: when they are stolen a second time, for real, Scotland Yard’s detectives are overtaken by events.…”

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Victorian Instincts: Anthony Trollope and the Philosophy of Law

Dam

2012

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This essay attempts to chart one of the ways in which the philosophy of law informed the Victorian novel by situating two of Anthony Trollope’s later novels in the context of contemporary jurisprudential debates. Trollope’s The Eustace Diamonds (1873) and John Caldigate (1879) push the discourse of legal hermeneutics to its epistemological limits and offer the concept of conscience as an alternative to that of intention. As such, Trollope is drawing on a popular understanding of the legal notion of equity, although he qualifies its influence by contrasting conscience to both instinct and knowingness. These concepts focus on ends only, which aligns them with natural law. Trollope’s representation of positive law does not offer a way out, since positive law seems to exercise a violence that can always be justified retrospectively. A solution to the problem of legal violence lies in the fact that Trollope embeds his conceptualization of conscience in the vocabulary of the sublime and perfection. These models resemble what Walter Benjamin has defined as divine violence and find formal expression in the rhythm that Trollope’s novels create between free indirect speech and narratorial intervention.

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Victorian Instincts: Anthony Trollope and the Philosophy of Law

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2012

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“…Being rich in sub plot, the novel focuses on greed and dishonesty caused by the scandals. These scandals were caused by sudden introduction of new comers and as Kendrick (1979) mentions; ''a traditional British enclosure is invaded by gold diggers, speculators, Jews and intruders' ' (p.136). The sudden entrance of Mr. Melmotte, for instance, exemplifies how British society is occupied by a so-called businessman whose previous life is mysterious.…”

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Dishonesty and the Cost of Playing With Others Feelings in Anthony Trollope S the Way We Live Now

Tanrıtanır¹

2018

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The Victorian Period, beginning in 1837 and ending in 1901, is a period when British Imperial develops and expands with an unprecedented speed. This period brings England-the first industrialized country in the world-to the highest level of develeopment. During this period, rural based life styles change into urban based economy and modern life which results in increase in wealth. Cities experience rapid growth, life styles of people differentiate, the landscape changes and massive production replaces agricultural production. Despite the prosperity and optimism in this period, some difficulties associated with the rapid industrialization emerge. Unemployment, poverty and competitive desire for social security appear causing restlessness among the members of the British society. The authors of this period from Charles Dickens to Elizabeth Gaskel and Anthony Trollope handle the issues of Victorian period and keep a critical eye on the matters changing the structure of the community. The aim of his study is to reflect the effects of rapid industrialization through Anthony Trollope's view. In his novel titled The Way We Live Now he presents the introduction of materaliasm characterized by a ''great financier'' and the leakage of dishonesty-as the financial power-into economical, religious, social and political institutes of British Community is analyzed. This study, displays the excessive interest of both the institutes and individuals to dishonesty at the same time proves that financial benefits result in frustration. Additionally, the presentation of the cost of playing with others' feelings and the significance of love and moral values are handled.

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“SO DELIGHTFUL A PLOT”: LIES, GOSSIP, AND THE NARRATION OF SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT INTHE EUSTACE DIAMONDS

Amir¹

2008

Victorian Literature and Culture

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One of the most inveterate and gifted liarsin Victorian fiction, Lizzie Eustace, the heroine of Anthony Trollope's 1873 novelThe Eustace Diamonds, is also one of the most enigmatic. Driven both by her social ambition and by her desire to retain the Eustace family diamonds – a necklace given to her by her late husband but claimed by his relatives as an heirloom – Lizzie depends on deceit to achieve her ends throughout the novel. Yet, her reliance on mendacity becomes perplexingly excessive, confusing not only her sycophantic companion, Julia Macnulty, but most of the story's other characters as well.

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The Eustace Diamonds: The Truth of Trollope's Fiction

Cited by 8 publications

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Victorian Instincts: Anthony Trollope and the Philosophy of Law

Victorian Instincts: Anthony Trollope and the Philosophy of Law

Dishonesty and the Cost of Playing With Others Feelings in Anthony Trollope S the Way We Live Now

“SO DELIGHTFUL A PLOT”: LIES, GOSSIP, AND THE NARRATION OF SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT INTHE EUSTACE DIAMONDS

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