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).

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

Format: Edited volume - paperback

Size: 230 × 170 mm

264 pages

ISBN: 9789462700413

Publication: August 13, 2015

Series: Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels 4

Languages: English

Stock item number: 102697

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.

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/

'Transforming Anthony Trollope' is an intellectually stimulating book of essays that deals with very diverse topics. This diversity is a potential weakness, because of a lack of thematic focus. But this is compensated by the richness of what the editors have collected. The collection shows that research on the crossroads of cultural historical mentalities studies and visual culture studies can be very fruitful.
Olivier Rieter, Barbarus, April 10, 2019

 

  Review 19
The other 2015 book on Trollope to be drawn to our attention is Simon Grennan and Laurence Grove’s edited collection, 'Transforming Anthony Trollope: Dispossession, Victorianism and Nineteenth-Century Word and Image', consisting of cross-disciplinary essays providing a companion to Grennan’s graphic novel. [...]  challenging, well-produced collection of essays.
The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 September 2017, Pages 703–915, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/max015
  The Year's Work in English Studies,