Complete Map

The complexity of the complete map aptly registers the interconnectedness at the heart of the novel, and the Barsetshire series as a whole. In both Trollope creates and peoples a dense and composite world – 'Barsetshire' – nested in a wider space that corresponds with mid-nineteenth-century England. The novel’s four key settings are imaged in the clear spatial clusters – 'Barchester' and the 'Bishop’s Palace' on the right, 'Plumstead rectory' and 'Ullathorne Court' on the left. These in turn, register the novel’s central tensions: between old and newer orders, between ecclesiastical and domestic, between high and low church. The toporefs reveal horizons and perspective. 'Barchester'/'Barchester Bishop’s' is widely inward-looking, dominated by either self-referential or ecclesiastic spatial allusions. 'Ullathorne', on the other hand, looks outward, to 'Wiltshire', 'Paris', 'the Colosseum'.