I find this sort of thing - "intertextuality" is the term in literary critical jargon - enormously fun. All my researches on the subject have, however, failed in enabling me to fix the date on which the family changed its religion. If this be so, I presume he was christened Obadiah, for that is his name, in commemoration of the conflict in which his ancestor so distinguished himself. Shandy, and that in early years he added an "e" to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him. I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr T. Mr Slope's parentage I am not able to say much. An early instance is the opening of Chapter 4: Trollope builds out various characters with allusions to famous English novels. So I'll organize my remarks (perhaps in several installments) around one peculiarity of the novel: literary allusions. Barchester Towers (1857), the second volume in the "Chronicles of Barsetshire," is almost three times the length of The Warden (1855). One blog post is not suited to the full discussion of a novel, especially a long one.
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