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• W2773732403 abstract "Victorians Journal 187 Madragn, Invalid® and ’Drunk®: Frail ©odie®, Fractured Minds and Fragmented Authority in Anthony Trollope’® Tin editor's Talas by Hazel Mackenzie “When we had been all but naked together I had taken him to be the superior of the two,” comments the titular editor in Anthony Trollope’s 1870 series ,4/7 Editor’s Tales (29),1 The editor is speaking of would-be contributor Michael Molloy, journeyman writer and madman, whom he first meets in the less-than-formal environs of Jermyn Street Turkish Baths and whose condescension and conversation he is grateful for until the truth about his companion is eventually revealed to him: that his physical superiority covers extreme mental fragility. The editor—a professional reader who is paid for his discernment and ability to mold texts into meaningful shapes—signally fails to “read” Michael Molloy. Foolishly, he believes in Molloy’s nakedness, taking it for truth, despite a number of clearly contradictory signs in Molloy’s presentation ofhimself. In An Editor’s Tales, a series in which Trollope depicts the social relations of the literary world with the same irony and subtlety that he had already applied to the worlds of provincial clergymen and London politics, both texts and people challenge the editor’s ability accurately to read the world around him. Seeking everywhere to create order and meaning, the editor faces obstacles at every turn in the shape of texts and bodies that, in their disorder and physical and mental deviations from the norm, refuse to be read. The discussion of Trollope and disability has until now primarily focused on the figure of Madeleine Neroni, the sexuallyalluring cripple from Barchester Towers. Critics such as Kate Lawson, Jane Nardin, and Cindy LaCom have respectively posited Neroni’s body as demarcating the boundary between purity and 1 Published serially (Saint Pauls Magazine) and collectively in volume form (Strahan) in 1870. 188 Victorians Journal impurity in Barchester society, as an emblem of comic misrule, as a parody of the Angel-in-the-House, and as symptomatic of societal unease regarding female sexuality. Suzanne Rintoul sees the indecipherability of the disabled body as marking a breakdown in representation that frustrates the male power dynamic seeking to enlist Neroni’s body as a symbol. In An Editor’s Tales, the disabled body and or mind plays a different role. Unlike Neroni’s crippled legs, the fractures and fragmentations ofthe bodies and minds of the characters that populate An Editor’s Tales are clearly delineated. Moreover, while Neroni’s exit from the novel allows for a return to order and stability, each story in this series builds towards the full display of the disabled character’s deviation from the order that the narrator wishes to impose upon them and his signal failure to accurately “read” them. Consequently, in the first story in the series, “The Turkish Bath,” the editor is taken in by a madman posing as an impoverished journalist posing as a well-to-do man of the world. “Josephine de Montmorenci” features the editor being tricked into helping a wouldbe novelist with a mysterious and alluring nom-de-plume only to discover that she is in fact a cripple. “The Spotted Dog” tells the story of a gentleman journalist ruined by alcoholism, whose tellingly-red nose the editor chooses to ignore; the title character of “Mrs. Brumby” is a transgressively-masculine Minerva whose body resists either feminine or masculine interpretation and who conquers all before her. Finally, “Mary Gresley” is the child-like woman who refuses to take no for an answer and then chooses her relationship with an invalid curate over the robust and gentlemanly editor. Thus, through a series of engagements between his gentlemanly narratoreditor and would-be contributors—each one fragmented in either body or mind—Trollope challenges the cultural and social authority of the privileged normate male through the quality his economic and social position rests on: his ability to interpret the world around him in an orderly and meaningful way. “This little story records the experience of one individual man; but our readers, we hope, will, without a grudge, allow us the use of the editorial we,” states the narrator at..." @default.
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• W2773732403 title "Madmen, Invalids and Drunks: Frail Bodies, Fractured Minds and Fragmented Authority in Anthony Trollope’s An Editor’s Tales" @default.
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