Transforming Anthony Trollope

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.

• Simon Grennan and Laurence GroveIntroductionPart 1: Dispossession: Simon Grennan's graphic adaptation of Trollope's John CaldigateJan BaetensAdapting 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 GrennanDispossession: time, motion and depictive regimesHugo FreyThe tactic for illusion in Simon Grennan's DispossessionPart 2: Nineteenth-century visualisationsFrederik Van DamAllegorical landscapes: the psychology of seeing in Anthony Trollope's later novelsDavid SkiltonComplex meanings in illustrated literature, 1860-1880Roger SabinComics versus books: the new criticism at the 'fin de siècle'Barbara PostemaThe visual culture of comics in the last half of the nineteenth century: comics without wordsPart 3: Using the Victorians: appropriation, adaptation and historiographyMarie-Luise Kohlke"Abominable pictures": neo-Victorianism and the tyranny of the sexual tabooIan HagueDrawing “the apprenticeship of a man of letters”: adapting Remembrance of Things Past for 'bande dessinée'Aarnoud RommensAllegories of graphiation: Alberto Breccia's counter-censorial versions of E. A. Poe's ValdemarPeter WilkinsAn incomplete project: graphic adaptations of Moby-Dick and the ethics of responseIndexGallery with colour figures

'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