Transforming Anthony Trollope

200 years of Anthony Trollope This volume is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays in the fields of nineteenth-century history, adaptation, word/image and Victorianism. Featuring new writing by some of the most influential, respected and radical scholars in these fields, Transforming Anthony Trollope constitutes both a close companion to Simon Grennan's 2015 graphic novel Dispossession - an adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 1879 novel John Caldigate - and a forward-looking, stand-alone addition to current debates on the cultural uses of history and the theorisation of remediation, illustration and narrative drawing.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

"Transforming Anthony Trollope" was edited by Simon Grennan and Laurence Grove.

Simon Grennan is Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of Chester and member of the international artists' team Grennan & Sperandio. - http://www.simongrennan.com/

Laurence Grove is Professor of French and Text/Image Studies at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures at the same university.

Yes, "Transforming Anthony Trollope" is part of the "Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels" series. It's book 4 in the series.

All volumes will be published in English, but the comics and graphic novels under investigation will be of any European language and from any European culture. Like graphic novels and comics, Europe itself is hard to define, and the approach for the series will be open and not overly prescriptive.

Series editors

Jan Baetens, KU Leuven
Hugo Frey, University of Chichester
Maaheen Ahmed, Ghent University

Editorial Board

The editorial board is composed of leading scholars from literature, visual arts, and historical studies:
Bart Beaty (University of Calgary)
Christopher Pizzino (University of Georgia)
Ann Miller (University of Leicester).

Proposals

Proposals and enquiries can be sent to the series editors.
Please make use of the submission form to present your manuscript or proposal to our board.
Authors interested in Open Access can consult the available funding options.

Links & Resources

Simon Grennan and Laurence Grove
Introduction

Part 1: Dispossession: Simon Grennan's graphic adaptation of Trollope's John Caldigate

Jan Baetens
Adapting and displaying multiple temporalities: what became of Trollope's John Caldigate and Maupassant's Boule de Suif in Simon Grennan's Dispossession and Dino Battaglia's Contes et nouvelles de guerre?
John Miers in conversation with Simon Grennan
Dispossession: time, motion and depictive regimes
Hugo Frey
The tactic for illusion in Simon Grennan's Dispossession

Part 2: Nineteenth-century visualisations

Frederik Van Dam
Allegorical landscapes: the psychology of seeing in Anthony Trollope's later novels
David Skilton
Complex meanings in illustrated literature, 1860-1880
Roger Sabin
Comics versus books: the new criticism at the 'fin de siècle'
Barbara Postema
The visual culture of comics in the last half of the nineteenth century: comics without words

Part 3: Using the Victorians: appropriation, adaptation and historiography

Marie-Luise Kohlke
"Abominable pictures": neo-Victorianism and the tyranny of the sexual taboo
Ian Hague
Drawing “the apprenticeship of a man of letters”: adapting Remembrance of Things Past for 'bande dessinée'
Aarnoud Rommens
Allegories of graphiation: Alberto Breccia's counter-censorial versions of E. A. Poe's Valdemar
Peter Wilkins
An incomplete project: graphic adaptations of Moby-Dick and the ethics of response

Index
Gallery with colour figures