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Source 1: This is a comprehensive & detailed analysis of Barchester Pilgrimage that I will use in the "Style" subsection of the article.

Source 2: This journal is a useful source for explaining the life of the author & adding to the "Ronald Knox" subsection of the article.

Source 3: An analysis of the evolution of Trollope's Barsetshire through Knox' book.

Source 4: General biography of Knox.

Source 5: Book on Knox.

Source 6:

Ronald Knox

Ronald Knox (1888-1957) was an English priest, writer and the author of Barchester Pilgrimage. He was birthed in Kibworth, Leicestershire and attained his education at Eton and Oxford. Knox was notably known for his translation of the Bible which he completed in 1949. Knox’ works spanned over multiple genres, including “parodies, apologetics, criticism, light verse, and memoirs”, along with being a “scholar and author of detective fiction”. Knox was the author of the sequel to [Trollope]’s world of Barsetshire through Barchester Pilgrimage. Knox also created a map of the world of Barsetshire in his novel, which was based on his interpretation of Trollope's description of the setting in his original novels, The Chronicles of Barsetshire. This map of Barsetshire was part of Knox’ ‘sequel-novel’.

Barchester Pilgrimage and the importance of Trollopeana

According to scholarly interpretations, Knox was “obsessed with Trollope’s ecclestial novel cycle, The Chronicles of Barsetshire”. Along with this, Knox explored the world of ‘Trollopeana’ throughout his literary career, and eventually adapted the works of Trollope into his own writings, leading to the publishing of Barchester Pilgrimage. The novel served as a sequel to Trollope’s Barsetshire. He continued the story that Trollope left in 1867 by picking up the narrative with one of Trollope’s characters, Johnnie Bold. He carefully places the beginning of this sequel-novel in 1877, a year following the point at which Trollope left the story, and slowly merges the narrative into his own by depicting the passage of multiple generations, leading to a 1934 setting, in the heart of Knox’ Barchester Pilgrimage. The novel itself was around 300 pages long, contrary to Trollope’s lengthy novels such as The Warden which spanned around 500 to 800 words. This distinction is simply because Knox’ work was not to create the setting that he worked with, as Trollope had already done that for him. As a result of this, Knox was able to maintain the “leisurely” nature of Trollope’s Barsetshire, as he had eliminated the need for excessive and detailed descriptions of the core components of the narrative such as the settings and the characters.

Critical interpretations

The style of the novel has been interpreted to be a result of Knox’ admiration of Trollope’s Barsetshire. To scholars, Knox used a “respectfully imitative prose style” to that of Trollope’s in his original writings, allowing him to continue the story of the succeeding generations of the main families in the novel in an authentic manner. Through such allusive writing, Knox wrote Barchester Pilgrimage in a manner that was “recognisably Trollopean”.

Furthermore, some interpretations suggest that Knox did add a personal aspect to the novel, as it is not entirely written in a Trollopean manner. Trollope made use of “epistolary chapters” in order to explicitly display character, which was a trait that Knox did not employ in Barchester Pilgrimage. On the contrary, however, a style aspect of Trollope’s that Knox “embraced with glee” was the employment of “stylised names” to name his characters, which is demonstrated through characters such as “Drs. Killgerm and Motherwell”. Another key aspect of the novel was the use of satire, which Knox had previously demonstrated in his texts such as Enthusiasm & Absolute and Abitofhell. Specifically, Knox maintains this satirical nature in the Barsetshire-based series, however, he follows Trollope’s lead yet again in executing a Horatian style of satire, rather than the general Swiftian style.

Publication details

The availability of Knox’ works has become scarce as time has passed, and can “only be purchased at a shop that specialises in rosaries and missals”. Furthermore, one must search for the original Sheed and Ward publications in order to acquire one of Knox’s works as they were initially published.

Legacy

Along with Barchester Pilgrimage, Knox’ works as a collective led to his acknowledgement as one of the finest writers of English prose over the last century. Furthermore, the text itself had strong significance in Knox’ own career, as it allowed for his transition into the field of writing sequel-novels, along with the other texts that allowed him to establish this particular venture of his literary career. Barchester Pilgrimage also left a legacy on Trollope’s works, as Knox empathetically broke down the Trollopean views of England, something that had become a unique and expected trait of Knox’ considering he had previously translated the Bible as well.

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