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Drawing on the Victorians - The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts (Hardcover)
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Drawing on the Victorians - The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Victorian Studies
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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 ephemera—to a mass
readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day
impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both
driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From this
starting point, Drawing on the Victorians sets out to explore the
relationship between Victorian graphic texts and today’s
steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres that emulate and
reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a flourishing
worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts
from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored. In this
collection, scholars from literary studies, cultural studies, and
art history consider contemporary works—Alan Moore’s League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moto Naoko’s Lady Victorian, and Edward
Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies, among others—alongside their
antecedents, from Punch’s 1897 Jubilee issue to Alice in
Wonderland and more. They build on previous work on
neo-Victorianism to affirm that the past not only influences but
converses with the present. Contributors: Christine Ferguson, Kate
Flint, Anna Maria Jones, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian
Maidment, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Jennifer Phegley, Monika
Pietrzak-Franger, Peter W. Sinnema, Jessica Straley
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