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. Ed(S): Jones, Anna Maria; Mitchell, Rebecca N. - Drawing on the Victorians - 9780821422472 - V9780821422472
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Drawing on the Victorians

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Description for Drawing on the Victorians hardcover. Editor(s): Jones, Anna Maria; Mitchell, Rebecca N. Series: Series in Victorian Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JM; ACV; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .

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. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Series in Victorian Studies
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821422472
SKU
V9780821422472
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About . Ed(S): Jones, Anna Maria; Mitchell, Rebecca N.
Anna Maria Jones is associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self. Her recent articles have appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, European Romantic Review, Criticism, Neo-Victorian Studies, and BRANCH. Rebecca N. Mitchell is reader in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. ... Read more

Reviews for Drawing on the Victorians
“Drawing on the Victorians is a singularly diverse and multinational collection, a fine critical embodiment of the palimpsest trope that stands … at its conceptual core.“
Victorian Studies
“Jones and Mitchell’s innovative and pioneering collection will establish new areas of scholarly debate. Moreover, its focus on ‘stories and poems, books and periodicals, comics, cartoons, and other ... Read more

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