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Morbidity in Fairyland: Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Abolition

Date Published:

3 June, 2011

Abstract:

The article argues that Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby contains a number of elements taken from Frances Trollope's anti-slavery novel Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; or Life of the Mississippi. In detaching Trollope's images and language from the setting of plantation culture, Dickens creates a story that is permeated with the feelings of abolitionist literature without being tied to a single political aim.

 

June 2011: Elsie B. Michie is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University.  Having just completed The Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), she is working on “Trollopizing the Canon,” a project about Frances Trollope’s impact on canonical Victorian writers Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, and Anthony Trollope.

 

Publisher's Version

Volume 9, Issue 2
Last updated on 04/16/2020