| Description |
111 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
England, 1873. John Caldigate, a young gentleman, gets into debt gambling and decides to try his luck in the gold fields of New South Wales. On the outward journey, he promises to marry Mrs Smith, a divorced actress who is travelling in the same ship. Returning home a rich man, John marries Hester, the sweetheart he left behind. Soon, Mrs Smith also returns from Australia, penniless, and claims that she is already his wife. Inspired by Anthony Trollope's 1879 novel John Caldigate, Dispossession embeds the reader in a uniquely wrought experience of the mid nineteenth century, including the first ever appearance of the Aboriginal Wiradjuri language in a graphic novel. Taking unique advantage of the graphic form to conjure the material world of the Victorian era in a glittering waltz of intense colour and deep shadow, Dispossession is a virtuoso and intensely affecting graphic novel by a master visual storyteller |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
"After John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope"--Title page |
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"Postface by Jan Baetens and Ortwin de Graef"--Title page |
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Some captions in parallel English and Wiradjuri |
| Subject |
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882, author.
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Graphic novels.
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Gold mines and mining -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Historical comics
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Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Man-woman relationships -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Wiradjuri (Australian people)
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Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Fiction
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Race relations - Representation - Literature
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Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
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Mining industry - Gold
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Wiradjuri language (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
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England -- Comic books, strips, etc
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New South Wales -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Australia -- History -- 1851-1891 -- Comic books, strips, etc
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New South Wales (NSW)
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United Kingdom / Great Britain (UK)
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction
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Historical fiction
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Historical fiction.
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Graphic novels
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Graphic novels.
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Graphic novels
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Graphic novels.
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Historical comics.
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| Author |
Riley, Cheryl, translator.
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Baetens, Jan, writer of added commentary.
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Graef, Ortwin de, 1963-, writer of added commentary.
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Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.
John Caldigate
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| LC no. |
2016388276 |
| ISBN |
0224102206 (hbk.) |
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9780224102209 (hbk.) |
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