Abstract
rITROLLOPE wrote that novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love' because he did not imagine that lzfe could be made interesting or successful without love. His own great novels Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux as he insisted, they are two halves of one novel -render exactly what Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses says of love, that for men and women it really life.2 As a man and as a writer, Trollope placed his highest value on love. It is the passion interests or has interested all. Every one feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it, -or else rejects it with an eagerness which still perpetuates the interest.3 His best fiction, however, does not treat love simplistically or reductively. If, as HenryJames wrote, Trollope is one who has truly helped the heart of man to know itself, 4 one reason is his complex and illuminating rendering of the human heart in love.
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