The Political Novel Seminar 1: Edwin Frank on Anthony Trollope

From September through November, Edwin Frank, editor of the New York Review Bo oks and author of Stranger than Fiction: The Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel, will lead a new three-part webinar series on the political novel. Join Frank in an investigation of the visions of politics reflected in the lives and works of Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, and Ursula K. Le Guin. 

Seminar One: Anthony Trollope (Sept. 8–29)

The first seminar will begin with a discussion of the idea of the political novel. It will then go on to the parliamentary, or Palliser novels, of Anthony Trollope, in which Trollope relates the changing fortunes of the Liberal Party in Victorian England of the 1860s and 70s, while considering the development of politics as a profession and the limitations of liberalism as an ideal. We'll also consider the parallels Trollope draws between the politics of state and nation and the sexual politics of man and woman.

Seminar one is four one-hour sessions: September 8, 15, 22, 29. All sessions will start at 7pm EDT.