Drawing on the Victorians the palimpsest of Victorian and neo-Victorian graphic texts

"Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images--illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemer...

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Other Authors: Jones, Anna Maria, 1972- editor (editor), Mitchell, Rebecca N. (Rebecca Nicole), 1976- editor (contributor), Flint, Kate, contributor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press [2017]
Edition:First edition
Series:Series in Victorian Studies.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009435734506719
Table of Contents:
  • The explicated image : graphic "texts" in early Victorian print culture / Brian Maidment
  • Adapting Alice in Wonderland : cultural legacies in contemporary graphic novels / Monika Pietrzak-Franger
  • Picturing the "cosmic egg" : the divine economy of a hollow earth / Peter W. Sinnema
  • Mixed media : Olivia Plender's A stellar key to the Summerland and the afterlife of spiritualist visual culture / Christine Ferguson
  • A new order : reading through pasts in Will Eisner's neo-Victorian graphic novel, Fagin the Jew / Heidi Kaufman
  • The undying joke about the dying girl : Charles Dickens to Roman Dirge / Jessica Straley
  • Prefiguring future pasts : imagined histories in Victorian poetic-graphic texts, 1860/1910 / Linda K. Hughes
  • Before and after : Punch, steampunk, and Victorian graphic narrativity / Rebecca N. Mitchell
  • Reading Victorian valentines : working-class women, courtship, and the Penny Post in Bow Bells magazine / Jennifer Phegley
  • Picturing "girls who read" : Victorian governesses and neo-Victorian shōjo manga / Anna Maria Jones.