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Trial separations: divorce, disestablishment, and home rule in Phineas Redux.(Critical essay)

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From: College Literature
Date: 20080622
Author:Frank, Cathrine O.

Cathrine O. Frank Trial Separations: Divorce, Disestablishment, and Home Rule in Phineas Redux

Phineas Redux (1874), the fourth of Anthony Trollope's "political" novels, depicts several unions between parties who remain formally tied to one another although they have no affective bond. Two failing marriages are dissolved, but actual divorce is never mooted. Debate over disestablishment of the Anglican Church opens the novel, but formal interest in the separation of church and state is supplanted by a murder trial and barely resurrected. And in the breach between these parties ...

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