{"product_id":"the-politics-of-public-opinion-in-the-novels-of-anthony-trollope-a-tenth-muse-hardcover","title":"The Politics of Public Opinion in the Novels of Anthony Trollope: A 'Tenth Muse' - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJan Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The figurative \"body\" of public opinion presents challenges to readers of the nineteenth-century British fiction insofar as it lacks the markers of an autonomous \u003cem\u003esubject\u003c\/em\u003e. It replaces direct address with intimations of surveillance and interpellation, reading characters and their actions as we read it for our situationally within it. In the novels of Anthony Trollope who continually refers to a \u003cem\u003evox populi\u003c\/em\u003e, public opinion has an economy, as a kind of \"currency\" in which reputation is priced and marketed while itself seeming inconclusive and undeveloped, even among its self-appointed spokesmen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt takes its place among a number of institutions that knit the country together as a network of conveyances with different points of entry: roads, railroads, ports and canals and the post office in which Trollope served as a civil servant for over 30 years. One such institution is the expanding bureaucracy which mediates between the people and those who regulate human activity and its exposure to government regulation. The ex-\u003cem\u003eposure \u003c\/em\u003e(literally to be placed outside oneself) is one of the ways in which public opinion, lacking a responsible subjectivity that can be held to account, removes individual subjectivity, threatening (or enabling) a rebirth in accountability. Yet, for all of its potentially subversive qualities, public opinion is a collective narrative--disguising itself as a unitary voice--that often misreads character and, in the \u003cem\u003eParliamentary Novels\u003c\/em\u003e, ideology. As it is vulnerable to being misread by politicians, public opinion also misreads, especially the \u003cem\u003earrivistes\u003c\/em\u003e attempting to enter the social and economic life of the country. Because of its resistance to inscriptive genres, the \u003cem\u003evox populi \u003c\/em\u003emay well represent the lost orality of the epic to which critics like Georg Lukaks have called our attention. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJan B. Gordon was one of a group of six foreign academics invited to professorships at National Universities in Japan when the law was changed in 1983 prohibiting non-Japanese from holding such positions. He was granted Emeritus Status in 2004 and from 2007 to 2014 was a distinguished professor at Kyoto Women's Department of English. He was therefore initially what is known as a white (affirmative action) appointment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45668665032748,"sku":"9781839986932","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0954\/5772\/files\/GfHgCQ6-Qg9781839986932.webp?v=1781643133","url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/the-politics-of-public-opinion-in-the-novels-of-anthony-trollope-a-tenth-muse-hardcover","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}