Places Trollope's work in the wider context of nineteenth century culture - an area of growing interest in literary studies - and combines three aspects, the Victorian novel, media history and gender issues. By applying feminist criticism the book challenges the traditional view of Trollope as a conservative.

This text examines the serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses in a range of Victorian magazines including "Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls", and the "Fortnightly Review". It highlights the importance of the periodical press in the literary culture of Victorian Britain, and argues that readers today need to engage with the lively cultural debates in the magazines, in order to better appreciate the complexity of Trollope's popular fiction.

Figures - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction: Trollope in the 1990s - Domestic Ideology and Gendered Space in Cornhill Magazine - Uncovering Periodical Identities: Good Words and the Rejection of Rachel Ray - Launching a Hybrid: The Belton Estate in the Fortnightly Review - Transitions: Phineas Finn and Masculinity in Saint Pauls Magazine - The Editor as Predator in Saint Pauls Magazine - Conclusion: Towards a Cultural Critique of Victorian Periodicals - Appendices - Bibliography - Index