Trollope and Gender

From the first gender-sensitive critique of Trollope's women by Morse, through Polhemus's erotically-charged account of Phineas Finn in love to Turner's genderised reading of narrative technique differentiated according to audience, the last two decades have witnessed a diametric shift in how we read Trollope. Today John Stuart Mill's articulation of liberalism sits well with Trollope's open and frank approach to gender and sexuality. This conference explored re-readings of Anthony Trollope in the light of the most recent thinking in gender studies. The conference was organised by Dr Margaret Markwick and supported by the University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies and by a grant from the British Academy.