Preface: Overture to an initial public offering -- The "prosthetic body" of public opinion in Barsetshire -- Miming the law -- "Playing" the opinion market -- The "management" of public opinion in Trollope's bureaucracies -- The sugar
Summary
"The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope's 'Tenth Muse'" takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth century British novel as 1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and 2) a "voice" that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with "empty universals" that generate meaning"-- Provided by publisher
