I'm currently reading The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope and love the way so many of the things it tackles still apply now. I love Trollope AND I love Henry James and each is so different than the other. I "googled" their names together to see if anyone has ever written about both of them in the same article and this is what I found...wish it were full text:
Michie, Elsie B. (Elsie Browning), 1948-
The Odd Couple: Anthony Trollope and Henry James
The Henry James Review - Volume 27, Number 1, Winter 2006, pp. 10-23
The Johns Hopkins University Press
"The Odd Couple: Anthony Trollope and Henry James" reads the two authors as a literary version of the famous television odd couple, with James a fastidious Felix Unger reacting with disgust but also attraction to Trollope, a self-consciously messy and vulgar Oscar Madison. James's disgust is articulated most powerfully in his early reviews of Trollope, but the terms of those reviews and the details of James's novels suggest that he found in Trollope's The Prime Minister a touchstone against which to work out the plots of Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
The Odd Couple: Anthony Trollope and Henry James
The Henry James Review - Volume 27, Number 1, Winter 2006, pp. 10-23
The Johns Hopkins University Press
"The Odd Couple: Anthony Trollope and Henry James" reads the two authors as a literary version of the famous television odd couple, with James a fastidious Felix Unger reacting with disgust but also attraction to Trollope, a self-consciously messy and vulgar Oscar Madison. James's disgust is articulated most powerfully in his early reviews of Trollope, but the terms of those reviews and the details of James's novels suggest that he found in Trollope's The Prime Minister a touchstone against which to work out the plots of Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
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