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Explores Ciceronian rhetoric in Trollope's novels, revealing its impact on argument and skepticism.
This study explores the place of Ciceronian rhetoric and the humanist tradition of argument in Anthony Trollope's historical and fictional writing. I argue that although Trollope, for reasons common to the Victorians, expresses significant doubt about the value of Ciceronian inventio in his Life of Cicero , he celebrates the tradition—particularly the role of disputatio in utramque partem (argument on both sides of an issue) and skepticism—in novels such as He Knew He Was Right . In this way, Trollope's fiction features what Thomas O. Sloane characterizes as a rhetorical cast of mind.
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