Study Group Details
690: Anthony Trollope's Phineas Redux (Palliser 4)
Thursday11:45 - 1:15
Starting September 24
Online
The fourth Palliser novel brings us back to the central hero, the major characters, political matters and themes of the second Palliser novel with a more complicated plot-design, bleaker and questioning tone. We experience dramatizations of how party, ethnic, religious, and colonialist politics shape, and how money corrupts campaigns and political life. Competition between individuals gets mixed up with how sexual customs; marital, separation, divorce laws, and male violence are working out in our characters' more private lives. The novel dramatizes issues of fairness and investigative reporting in the criminal justice system in England over a murder case. It is famous for the recurring disillusioned lawyer Chaffanbrass.
This study group is new
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: TBA
Hours of Reading: 2 hrs/week
Study Group Leader(s):
Ellen Moody
Ellen Moody holds a PhD in English literature and has taught in colleges for more than 30 years and at OLLI for seven. She's published on Trollope, film adaptations, and 18th- and 19th-century literature. She read with people at OLLI Trollope's Barsetshire and Palliser fiction, his short stories, 19th century novels by women, Booker Prize novels, and Virginia Woolf.
Reading List
Phineas Redux (Anthony Trollope) | ISBN: 978-0-19-283559-8 | Required