The Centre of Things
Subtitle: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 22, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780044455936
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Literary Criticism; English Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; United Kingdom, Great Britain; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; 19th century; English fiction; History and criticism; Political fiction, English
First sentence: TOWARDS THE END of Trollope's novel The Prime Minister (1876) the Duke of Omnium takes his cabinet colleague Phineas Finn to his favourite view on his estate of Matching.