Episode 2 - Dispossession: Adapting Anthony Trollope with Dr. Simon Grennan

In this episode, Carol Adlam interviews visual artist and graphic novel specialist Dr. Simon Grennan. Together, they discuss Simon’s unique graphic novel, Dispossession: A Novel in Few Words (2015)—a visual adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s 1877 classic, John Caldigate.The conversation bridges the gap between Victorian literature and modern comics theory, exploring how text is transformed into image.Key topics include:Intermedial Adaptation: The challenges of finding visual analogues for literary text.Setting the Scene: Depicting Australia in nineteenth-century literature.Visual Time: Exploring twentieth-century "movie time," point of view, and comics theory.Credits:Guest: Dr. Simon GrennanInterviewer: Dr. Carol AdlamRecorded: February–May 2020 in Chester, Nottingham, and St Andrews.