Partying with the Opposition: Social Politics in The Prime Minister

Berger analyzes that Anthony Trollope's novel, "The Prime Minister," like the Plantagenet Palliser novels generally, concerns not the Victorian mundane but the subtle and, in Trollope's distinctive view, dangerous subjection of political processes to commercial mechanisms and a freestanding and self-sufficient sociality. For Trollope, a political order that rests on profit and popularity effaces difference and undercuts identity and alliance.