Filosofi & religion
The Politics of Public Opinion in the Novels of Anthony Trollope
Jan Gordon
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Although public opinion has always existed, it becomes an acknowledged political subject in both the Oxford English Dictionary (1864) and the Barsetshire Chronicle and Parliamentary Novels of Anthony Trollope contemporaneously with 1) the penetration of the press into local issues and 2) the entire question of which publics were to be represented. Public opinion hence is a composite of parliamentary law-making as well as a kind of appellate division for societys social (and judicial judgments), providing an alternative narrative. It differs from gossip in the nineteenth-century novel insofar as it contains no instruction manual (dont tell anyone, who told you but...), but can be manipulated by a variety of new informational platforms to not merely impact, but constitute decision-making. Detached from any unitary authority and often anonymously narrated, public opinion, like the orphan-figure of nineteenth-century literature, is a discourse discontinuous from history, tradition, class alignments, and foundational origins to become a law unto itself.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9781839986932
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 244
- Utgivningsdatum: 2023-01-17
- Förlag: Anthem Press