Capricious Captioning and Narrative Instability in Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Newspaper Illustrations, Komaba Museum, University of Tokyo [Invited Lecture], 10 June 2017. (original) (raw)

Abstract

Hugh Lofting’s most famous literary creation, Doctor John Dolittle, a kindly, middle-aged man capable of conversing with animals, was first introduced to the American reading public in The Story of Doctor Dolittle in 1920. Two years later a UK edition emerged, the same year that The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was published. Controversially expunged of racially derogatory language in modern editions, little notice has been taken of contemporary newspaper serializations of the Dolittle stories that attempted to capitalize on the commercial success of the books. Beginning on the 29 October 1922, The New York Tribune serialized both books in their weekly Sunday Magazine under the collective title The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle. This illustrated lecture explores how, although the serialization largely maintained close textual fidelity and reused the majority of Lofting’s iconic illustrations, they were often re-captioned, which represents a non-authorial editorial intervention significantly altering narrative positionality.

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